Quotes from Tui T. Sutherland

That's right, you self-righteous fish nose. I learned a few things from Queen Scarlet, who could burn dragons without touching them.

imagine Winter singing! I wonder if he can scowl and sing and look darkly handsome and mortally offended all at the same time. Probably.

These RainWings need someone to whip them into shape,

I'm having ANOTHER VISION,

They rapped on Clearsight's door and heard a clatter of things falling as talons thumped toward the door. Finally she poked her head out and gave Darkstalker a stern look. "I knew it was you," she said. "REALLY?" Darkstalker said with a gasp. "It's like you can PREDICT THE FUTURE!

Ta-daaaaa!" Bumblebee declared, working two of her wings free and flinging them out to either side.

Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally

And also because there's a dragon there who I'm definitely not thinking about and certainly do not think about all the time.

I heard you weren't a SkyWing, Glory, but that doesn't bother me. SkyWings are overrated,

doorway. Glory wasn't quite sure how she knew this was not an ordinary hole in a rock.

He was the idiot who fell over his claws in the first chapter, had to be rescued in the fourth, nearly ruined the whole plan in the ninth, and ran away at the end, or died, if he was really extra stupid. So

Want me to drop a mango on her?" Sundew offered. "You have a MANGO?" Swordtail asked indignantly. "No, you acorn. It's a metaphorical mango." "I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good," Swordtail muttered.

You're not nothing.

Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I'm supposed to kill THAT? Commander

Tsunami actually got wounded trying to help her, so she might be impressed by that. But then, Tsunami is about as diplomatic as a starving rhinoceros, so I'd probably vote for Sunny." "I BEG YOUR PARDON," Tsunami objected. "I can be VERY DIPLOMATIC when I WANT to be.

His sister glittered with coils of gemstones, long twisted ropes of pearls and opals and sapphires circling her torso and ankles. Indigo's only adornment was a necklace woven from dark purple seaweed, which Fathom had made for her last week. He liked it because the color matched her eyes. He liked her because

Tsunami lashed her tail so hard she nearly fell off the branch. "General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.

Idiotic hopeful former self

it's a dark world, Peril, but you and I will stand in the fire and be safe, because we have each other"?

Well, not anymore, Tsunami thought fiercely. Even Queen Coral would have to believe the truth once she saw the statue as it was now. Marble Orca, once serene and regal on her pedestal, was trapped by the spear in battle position. Her

I can hear others, but no one else can hear me. Makes for a lot of very boring, one-sided conversations. She

There were more important things than becoming queen. Stopping

Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid.

The light, the light, the light wanted him out, wanted to run its talons over his wings, drip through his scales, fill him with silver power. He wanted that power, too, all of it, all of it.