Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

That might apply if these dragons were my friends," Winter objected, "but they're actually strangers who happened to get thrown into a group with me. They're not even IceWings. Why should they care what happens to Hailstorm?" "They care what happens to you," Glory said. "For some reason," added Deathbringer. "Entertainment value," offered Qibli.

He felt an almost unbearable longing to press himself against her scales and fall asleep with her star-speckled wings over his.

Glory had her tail curled around her talons and was holding her wings in close as wave after wave of odd colors spread through her scales. Deathbringer put one wing around her, gently, and she let him.

Hey, I'm mad, too," Tsunami said. "But —" "LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN.

Would you really eat a hairy spider anyway?

The whole point of a top secret invisible guard," Deathbringer said severely, "is for them to be invisible and secret. Therefore it is extremely unhelpful for certain queens to go pointing them out and discussing them loudly with the entire rainforest.

Hey, igloo-face, that's not cool,

By the moons, you make me nervously," Riptide said. One

Peril couldn't hold back her curiosity. She swooped closer as the SkyWing looked down at the thing in his talons, then turned, shuddering, to show it to Ruby and the others. Sunny began to scream as though her heart was being ripped out of her chest. Clay reached to catch her before she fell out of the sky. The SkyWing was holding the severed head of Queen Glory of the RainWings.

Rule #1: Protect Your Scavenger.

Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou with an expression of searing hatred, so intense that Winter wanted to run across the clearing and fling up his wings to shield Moon from it.

All right, shutting up now,

Coconut," he whispered. "Um. Would you please go hit my grandfather?" The

It was strange to realize that a dragon who couldn't be hurt on the outside could have so many ragged holes on the inside.

Ah. That's infinitely better," he said. "Nice to finally meet you, Peril. Thank you so much for your help.

Mother was doing that dragon thing of assuming her special perfect egg had a female dragonet inside. WRONG.)

On the other side of the queen, Turtle sat up, all his sleepiness gone. He looked much more worried and much less … puddle-like than usual. Queen

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon,

I BEG YOUR PARDON," Tsunami objected. "I can be VERY DIPLOMATIC when I WANT to be.

Moon, can Tamarin touch your face?

Winter was not surprised to discover that the rainforest was horrifying and awful.

DOOM DOOM THE SKY IS FALLING MY FRIEND IS EVIL THE WORLD IS ENDING blah blah overreacting melodramatic nonsense. Darkstalker

Well, then, maybe she needed more friends so that some of them could be expendable. If anything happened to Clay right now, it would be the END OF ALL THINGS. She would literally burn down the world.

I volunteer," Clay said. "I'm a world champion at sitting on my friends.