Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

Otherwise he'll always be worrying about what she thinks of him. It's her eyes on him that make him so afraid of his magic. He'd be much happier and less worried without her around. As would I, frankly. I don't particularly like dragons who point sharp things at me.

blue. True? False? What's the coolest thing

Ow!" he yelped, but he didn't fight her off as she twined her tail with his and wrapped her wings around him.

before she could scream. Kestrel clutched at the blood pouring from her neck and staggered back, pummeled by the wind. Blister took another step and stabbed Kestrel in the heart with her poisonous tail. The SkyWing collapsed to the rocks, thrashing in agony. Her mouth opened to scream curses or breathe fire at her murderers, but only dark red blood bubbled out.

disliked it intensely when Qibli made clever observations like that, and it happened about forty times a day.

I am not in love with a dragon I am sworn to hate.

Don't leave out the key adjectives in there. Kill one low-ranked, disappointing brother in order to save the long-lost hero with a bright future. That makes the equation a bit easier.

Sundew tugged the scarf a little higher up Bumblebee's neck. "Our turn, little bug. Stay very still and do NOT distract me, understand?" "Ooobeegoo," Bumblebee said sternly. She patted Sundew's face. "Do NOBBY splamflamp." "I wasn't planning on being splamflamp," Sundew retorted, "whatever that is.

I have a cockatoo," Willow was saying to Cricket. "Her name is Talkatoo and she's the smartest bird in the world SUNDEW STOP LAUGHING AT ME." She shoved Sundew's shoulder affectionately. "I was only a little older than

The corpse of a NightWing guard lay beneath the dirt in a hastily dug hollow,

A SLUG IN BED WILL LOSE HIS HEAD! ARISE, PATHETIC ONE! TLALOC HAS RETURNED TO BEAT YOUR POWERS INTO YOU!

LOOK TO THE SKIES! THEY ARE FULL OF DISGUSTING SUNSHINE! LET US GO FORTH AND TRAIN ANEW TO BRING THE WRATH OF THE CLOUDS DOWN AMONG US! -- Tlaloc

I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO," Glory roared. "Too late," Tsunami said. "Since that's kind of already happened. The volcano part, I mean. He's a pile of ashes now.

You also should avoid talking to your targets, in case you find out that they're beautiful, sarcastic, and fascinating. For instance.

SNUDOO!" cried the little dragonet tied snugly to Cricket's chest. Bumblebee reached her tiny talons toward Sundew. "MRBLE SNUDOO!" "Is that tiny lizard trying to say my name?" Sundew asked, alarmed. "How did THAT happen?

Snudoo!" Bumblebee cheered. She lifted her little talons up and did a very good impression of something cute. Something more like a tamarin and definitely not like a HiveWing.

and I never got to tell Sunny I love her.

WELL THEN FINE, she would just keep her visions to herself. Until she had another great one, anyway.

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.

Maybe losing your soul isn't the right way to describe it," Turtle said. "Maybe it's more like … the more you use your power for bad things, the more you feel like you're entitled to use your power for anything. It makes it harder to go back — only forward into more bad things.

I haven't had any visions about this! This seems seriously vision-worthy! Powers, help me out!" She closed her eyes. "Oh, no! I see ... darkness ahead!

The Park?" Gus asked skeptically, following him out of Kali's building and across the empty street. "The place with the homicidal poodle pack and creepy hanging goddess?

As each of them voted for her, Sunny felt as though her own scales might turn pink.

Peril thought her mother was dead. How would she react when she found out it was Kestrel — and she was still alive?