Quotes About Resilience

I have to get out of here," Tsunami said. Before I tie your stupid tail around your stupid snout and leave you in a bundle at the bottom of the lake.

Starflight had to sit down and fold his wings over his head for a minute.

And we can get used to anything as long as we're together, right? That's what's important?

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Tui T. Sutherland

hold their breath for up to an hour,

I see you going to the giving-up place in your head. Get yourself out of there right now. We do not know he's dead any more than we did an hour ago. What we have to do is keep searching, because he's only definitely dead if we give up and sit here like moping camels. You are not allowed to mourn until you see a dead body, do you understand me?

AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO,

Only a few dragonets remained, including Snowfall and Hailstorm, who were both staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

Of course she is — that's what she's been up to this whole time,

and when Rollan nearly did.

look at that river and think, I can't swim. But I remember diving into dark green oceans studded with drifting pieces of ice. I look at my claws and think, I'm clumsy and useless. But I remember winning every competition — I remember being at the top of the rankings. I feel like the air is too warm and I think I can't wait to go home and roll in snow, but I imagine being surrounded by IceWings and I immediately want to kill them all to protect my queen.

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

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Peril came to because her body decided not to drown.

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Turtle the Strong and Mighty

She wrestled with the tape as if it had deeply insulted her ancestors,

Dad would never work for anyone else; he likes being lord himself too much. And he doesn't want to fight any more dragons. He'd rather hide from them.

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Tui T. Sutherland

feeding enormous talking cockroaches and cleaning out monster spider dens would serve her right.