Top 300 Tui T. Sutherland Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We are not leaving Deathbringer!” Glory grabbed Fatespeaker. “Point the way and I’ll go by myself. Starflight, get out of here. Get everyone off the island.” Deathbringer? Starflight opened and closed his mouth. He hadn’t realized that rescuing the NightWing assassin was even on Glory’s agenda, let alone that it was important enough to risk an erupting volcano for. But she’s right. He risked everything for us – for her.”

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52. “It was a little unsettling how quiet the skies were. Clay.”

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53. “Summary: Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family, unlike his sister Icicle, who has been raised to challenge the IceWing queen – but now that Icicle has broken the truce and escaped from Jade Mountain Academy, Winter, accompanied by his new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, embarks on his own quest to free his brother from the clutches of Queen Scarlet, and win the respect of his family. ISBN.”

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54. “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.”

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55. “On the contrary,” she said. “I see this really awesome future where I go back inside and drink tea by the fire and read a scroll about funny scavenger antics for the rest of the day and also, by the way, stay completely dry. That one is definitely winning right now.”

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56. “You’d better be all right or I will tie you to a tree and cover you with hallucinogenic frogs. Tamarin, please wake up.”

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57. “As long as they avoided that fight about Clearsight’s timeline scrolls, and that other fight about Darkstalker, and, oh dear, all the fights about Listener’s crushes on various –.”

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58. “It’s because you’re half NightWing.”

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59. “Darkstalker spread his wings and paused. He leaned over to Vulture, tapped his head, and whispered something. Qibli’s grandfather vanished again, as suddenly as he’d appeared.”

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60. “Sunny, by all the moons, quit feeling sorry for dragons who want to abduct you and sell you off.”

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61. “Dazzling, Grandeur, Exquisite,” Glory muttered, adding those to the list of things she’d memorized in the last day. “And the last one? Let me guess – Splendiferous? Astonishing? Too Beautiful for Dragon Eyes to Bear?” “That’s Fruit Bat,” said Kinkajou.”

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62. “But Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow. She.”

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63. “Smile in front of the queen?” she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. ‘Surely that’s not allowed!”

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64. “Coconut,” he whispered. “Um. Would you please go hit my grandfather?” The.”

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65. “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!”

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66. “The dragons who like you now are the ones most likely to betray you. Believe me. I know.”

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67. “All right, I’ll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.”

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68. “Which one do we want to be queen?” Sunny asked. “We get to pick, right? When we fulfill the prophecy?” “None of them,” Starflight said gloomily. “Blaze is about as smart as a concussed sheep, Blister is most likely plotting to become queen of all the tribes somehow, and if Burn wins, she’ll probably keep the war going just for fun.”

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69. “This white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday.”

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70. “Nope,” Clay said. “We’re free now. I’m only going to eat what I want to eat from now on.” As long as it’s slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.”

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71. “So You Want to Be Famous.”

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72. “We can’t be anything. We can never, never be what I dream of us being.”

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73. “I’m saying, nice to meet you, Moon. My name is Darkstalker.”

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74. “I’m awake,” Clay muttered. He buried his head under his talons. “I’m just waiting until Glory and Tsunami stop fighting. I was dreaming about sheep and buffalo and bears. They were all on the table in front of me and I had to decide which to eat first. Oh, and they all smelled like melons. That part was kind of weird.”

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75. “Ah. That’s infinitely better,” he said. “Nice to finally meet you, Peril. Thank you so much for your help.”

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76. “Moon took up so much of his headspace. He caught himself watching her the way he used to watch Cobra, hoping for a glance that would hint she might love him back. He wanted to bring her new scrolls that would make her face light up. He wanted to make her soup when her visions gave her headaches and sing her silly songs to help her stop worrying. He wanted to fly beside her while she saved the world.”

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77. “I’m interested in going back to my mother, Moon thought. Can I explore that?”

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78. “What?” Kinkajou asked. “What? What? WHAT?”

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79. “Read this scroll, sweep this cave, catch that exact fish, kill that misbehaving prisoner.”

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80. “I’ve never met an IceWing,” Clay said, edging back a step. “I’ve never met much of anyone, really. I mean, I guess I read that you were all the color of ice, but I didn’t realize ice came in so many colors. Like, you know, blue. Very surprising. It’s cool, though. Oh, ha ha, no pun intended.”

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81. “Excellent,” said Queen Scarlet, flicking her tongue between her teeth. “A thrilling demonstration. Everything I was hoping for. As you say, Queen Burn, so much for that prophecy now, right? Peril, back to your place.” I hope you know how to control your new champion, Mother. Because she’s not just a threat to me. The crowd of dragons surged back, struggling to stay out of Peril’s path, as the dragonet walked slowly back to the little cage of rocks. This dragon could destroy the entire world.”

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82. “Queen Scarlet took the dragonets.” “Yes,” said Nautilus drily. “We gathered that much from how she’s practically been standing on the tallest mountain shouting, ‘I have the dragonets of destiny! They’re all mine!”

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83. “I don’t have an evil plan!” said Peril, panicking. “All my evil is spur of the moment! Turtle, tell them how bad I am at planning.”

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84. “I volunteer,” Clay said. “I’m a world champion at sitting on my friends.”

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85. “Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I’m supposed to kill THAT? Commander.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “Hailstorm is alive?” Winter cried.”

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88. “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.”

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89. “A little farther down was the portrait of her that Darkstalker had painted, with what looked like a spiderweb of fireworks behind her. Only the two of them knew that was supposed to represent the intersecting timelines of the future. Unfortunately his skill at painting was nowhere close to Whiteout’s, and Clearsight looked a bit more like a horse with a hippo butt than she would have liked. She had politely refrained from telling him that. Listener.”

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90. “Blue IceWing blood everywhere.”

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91. “Ow!” he yelped, but he didn’t fight her off as she twined her tail with his and wrapped her wings around him.”

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92. “It looked a little bit like a monkey, but bigger and not quite so hairy, apart from a patch of floppy brown fur on top of its head. It had nimble little paws, which were holding something that it was gazing at intently. Parts of it were wrapped in something like a cocoon made of jaguar fur and deep red silk.”

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93. “Turtle made a “would rather not handle this weather either myself” face and tried to shake some of the rain off his waterlogged wings.”

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94. “This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water. I wonder when it will be sun time. Maybe I should try a different papaya after this one. But what if the next papaya is boring, too?”

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95. “Is this what I become without him? I go right back to being a monster? She held out her talons. Wisps of smoke were starting to rise from them again. The firescales aren’t what make me dangerous. Even without them, I was as bad as ever, because I was willing to follow her.”

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96. “And what if they win?” Burn demanded. “They won’t,” Scarlet said. “But of course killing them ourselves is a solid backup plan.” “Excuse me,” Tsunami interrupted. “You know we’re right over here, right? Don’t you want to hatch your evil plans somewhere more secretive?”

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97. “Or because he couldn’t stand the idea of Moon and Qibli searching Pyrrhia, alone, together?”

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98. “You can do and say everything exactly the same as everyone else, but if there’s one thing different about you, that’s all they care about.” “I assume so,” Peril said. “I’ve never actually tried acting like other dragons.” “Well, it doesn’t work,” he said. Something was glowing in his eyes, an old, old anger. “Trust me. You still end up banished from your own home.”

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99. “Well, but that makes sense,” Tsunami said. “You practically are a cute furry thing.”

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100. “Qibli was expecting Turtle to do something, and Turtle had a bad feeling that “something” wasn’t “Turtle flying all the way back to the Kingdom of the Sea, finding a deep trench, and staying there forever.”

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