Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

ME, THAT'S WHO! I'm the victim here! Someone should be all heroically trying to help ME right all the wrongs! Where's my rotten cavalry of loyal idiots?

orders (or as Katydid called them, "whole

They were two SandWings, swooping lower as they got closer. For an uneasy moment, Glory thought they must have seen her. But they whooshed past without even glancing down, and she realized they were aiming at something beyond and behind her.

You've never seen instant loyalty like these RainWings have for Queen Glory,

Logan, did your shirt just . . . move?" "Don't worry about it," he said. "I brought backup.

Oooo. What a beautiful image. Queen Diamond with a chain of silver circles wound around her snout and frozen to her scales. He closed his eyes and imagined the blissful quiet.

mean, not the crocodile. Definitely not in the reptile-throwing business, me.

I was only a little older than Bumblebee when I named her! I'd like to see you come up with a better name at that age!" "Wordibird," Bumblebee said sleepily from her sling, and Cricket laughed again.

Good news: Four of your students have gone off to find a dragon who just tried to kill you, in order to find another dragon who has tried to kill you about ninety dozen times. Oh excellent, thanks, Turtle. Now we don't have to worry at all.

The problem was, he felt it now.

That's … complicated and devious," Qibli said. "Congratulations, you've just summed up NightWings," Winter said to him.

like the way visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

Your Majesty is the wisest of all dragons," said Kidney Breath.

I guess that's how other dragons live… never knowing how complicated everyone else is. That's what it would be like, to be normal. But if I could choose, would I want that?

He could put her safely back in the category of "Despicable, Conniving NightWings I Hate.

I'm calm!" Cricket said. She realized she was bouncing on her front talons and forced herself to sit on her tail and stay still. "SO TOTALLY CALM.

Queen: a closely guarded secret

Stay here, because if you get killed by an IceWing, I'm going to be extremely mad at you.

could see five different sets of scales — yellow, blue, green, black, and brown.

A secret IceWing ability to kill dragons with a sneer?

To lead you far astray into the marshy swamp," Zoe said in a spooky voice, "where you will be lost forever.

Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow.

and in a minute he had six will-o'-the-wisps floating in front of him, jostling and bumping each other as they tried to get his attention and look mysteriously mesmerizing at the same time. The effect was not terribly menacing.

Right before Qibli came to get us, she was telling me about a spell she tried to restore Tamarin's sight.