Top 300 Tui T. Sutherland Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “She’s a RainWing,” he hissed. “She’d laugh at me just as much as any of her tribe, if she’d met me before I found my power.”

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202. “Hmmm,′ she said. ‘How long do you think it’ll last?’ ‘How would I know?!”

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203. “Oh, good,” said Tsunami. “School-wide panic. We haven’t had any of that in at least two days.”

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204. “Cricket wanted the world to feel more like a book: Here is a question, so here is an answer. Here are the mysteries of the universe; now here is everything you want to know about them.”

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205. “Fighting over power, Peril thought. Like every dragon ever. But it’s not their power, it’s Darkstalker’s, and they want to use it, the same way Scarlet used mine.”

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206. “Queen Glory,” he grumbled, and Starflight recognized Strongwings, his father’s burly lab assistant.”

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207. “EW,” Bumblebee declared, in perhaps her most accurate observation so far.”

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208. “Starflight was dreaming, but it wasn’t so much a dream as a memory.”

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209. “Beyond his sisters, lit by the pale moonlight, Smolder’s eyes were shining. He was nothing but happy to see his mother dead. But.”

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210. “Starflight and Moon didn’t kill Hailstorm!” Winter shouted. “Queen Scarlet did!”

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

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212. “Sundew swatted at him and he darted out of the way.”

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

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214. “She knew Kinkajou would have other best friends. Possibly six more by the end of lunchtime.”

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215. “No!” Kinkajou cried. “We’re eating together! You haven’t even finished your hairy smelly carcass thing! Sit!”

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216. “Oooom-yum?” Bumblebee inquired, reaching for it. “Eeee?” “No,” Cricket said. “GROSS, Bumblebee!” “GWOSE!” Bumblebee cried, waking up an anaconda as thick as Sundew’s tail in the next tree over.”

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217. “It’s furry and sleeps upside down and has a really chewy tail,” said.”

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218. “I thought you brought me here on our first trip.”

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219. “Let’s go bother Clearsight!”

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220. “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.”

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221. “His intense joy – so much to read! Surely everything he could wish for had to be in here, all the answers to all his questions – warred with deep, paralyzing anxiety. How would he ever learn all this?”

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222. “Maybe there would be no queen on the throne beside him.”

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223. “This is ssssssssssssssssssoooooooo interesting, isn’t it?”

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224. “Most of them were ruining the effect by peering at the spears with mystified expressions, or holding them upside down.”

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225. “Tangerines were not quite the epic change Blue wanted to see in the world.”

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226. “Naturally,” Snowflake said. “Who wouldn’t want to marry a prince and watch her daughters fight to the death for the throne?” “Well,” said Fox. “True love. Right?” “Indeed,” said Snowflake. “True love.”

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227. “Maybe we should destroy it,” Sunny said unexpectedly. They all turned to look at her.”

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228. “That’s your secret,” Moon breathed. She had an expression like someone who’d just managed to finally alphabetize a million scrolls exactly right. “An animus.”

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229. “There was a brief, terrifying moment as his midsection got stuck. Would he drown down here? Would the prophecy be ruined because of an extra cow?”

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230. “I can think of is I distract him and you try.”

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231. “Glory muttered, staring over Winter’s shoulder at the corpse. Clouds.”

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232. “Not another boring diplomatic meeting.”

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233. “It’s time to prove that you really do belong in this prophecy.”

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234. “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?”

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235. “She had a really odd expression on her face, as if the agony of the prophecy vision had suddenly popped and meerkats had come cartwheeling out of the cracked mountain instead of death.”

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236. “So what’s the best way to punish a SeaWing?” Vermilion swooped over the crowd, trying to look as if he was perfectly comfortable in the air instead of on the sands where he usually did his announcing. “Chop off his head!” “Stuff grass in his gills!” “Drown him!”

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237. “Oh, I’m not allowed to take art classes anymore,” Cricket said with a kind of carelessness he was pretty sure she was faking. “You can proooooobably guess why.” “Good heavens, Cricket,” he said, putting on the voice she’d used several times already. “No one has ever used that many colors on one piece of paper before. Look at this mess. Why can’t you just draw a normal blue blueberry like every other dragon?”

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238. “Scarlet’s gladiator fetish.”

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239. “They should just find the dragon who did it and give them a slow, horrible death. Perhaps by making them listen to Starflight talk for the next hundred years.”

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240. “Battlewinner spat out a shard of ice that sizzled into steam when it hit the lava. “You never wanted to be queen,” she rasped. “You’re a pathetic heir.” “I know I am,” Greatness said. “Being queen is awful.”

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241. “Kestrel of the SkyWings?” Cirrus said. “Big, red, grumpy-looking?” “You’ve just described fifty percent of all SkyWings,” said the MudWing sitting on top of Turtle. “The other half is big, orange, and grumpy-looking.”

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242. “I learned a few things from Queen Scarlet, who could burn dragons without touching them.”

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243. “She put one talon over Winter’s.”

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244. “Yeah,” Swordtail said fervently. “HiveWings don’t care about anyone but themselves.” Cricket flinched, and Blue frowned at Swordtail. “That’s really unfair, Swordtail. You don’t know what’s going on in their hearts. The only HiveWing you know well is Cricket, and she cares a lot.”

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245. “And if you are even considering setting me free while keeping him trapped, I will roast your talons one claw at a time.”

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

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247. “Blaze yet and I hate waiting.”

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248. “I know exactly who to kill. A freezing shiver rattled down Moon’s spine. Sora.”

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249. “Our choices are what make us good or evil – what we do, how we help or hurt the world. You make the world a better place by being in it. With or without magic, that’s always been true.”

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250. “Sure enough, a few moments later, an enormous blue-green SeaWing emerged from the water, shaking her wings vigorously. She was powerfully built, as big as Morrowseer, with broad shoulders and gleaming teeth and a healing burn scar on her neck, and she had a trident longer than Deathbringer strapped to her back. Holy mother of lava, Deathbringer thought. I’m supposed to kill THAT?”

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