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“There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
"No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

“He [Riptide] sighed. "I said, 'What are you doing all the way out here?' and you said, 'Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herrig so I could eat it, and also your wings sound like sharks snoring.'"
Tsunami burst out laughing.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

“She started awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to death, and discovered that Clay had rolled over on top of her in the middle of the night.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

“She also adored that it had taken an entire day for it to occur to him that the Kingdom of the Sea was underwater.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

“I heard you weren’t a SkyWing, Glory, but that doesn’t bother me. SkyWings are overrated,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

“— Louise, s'écria-t-elle en arrivant à ma hauteur, le vieux s'est pendu et je n'arrive pas à le décrocher toute seule ! Tu peux venir m'aider ?
Il me fallut du sang-froid pour ne pas pousser un cri de joie car enfin, le bon Dieu avait daigné rappeler un salopard.”
― Nathalie Hug, 1, rue des petits pas

“— A moi de te poser une question, l'interrompis-je alors qu'Astrid ouvrait le bouche pour m'interroger encore. Suis-je une femme quand je suis incapable de satisfaire celui que j'aime ?
— Suis-je une femme quand je me donne à un salaud qui ne me respecte pas ? (Astrid me regarda avec tendresse.) Tu ne deviens pas une femme en appartenant à un homme, Louise. Tu es une femme, c'est tout.”
― Nathalie Hug, 1, rue des petits pas

“— Evidemment, les choix de David vous donnent une excuse pour le rejeter. Mais ne croyez-vous pas que ce qui vous effraye, ajouta le médecin après un court silence, c'est que vous puissiez aimer cet homme malgré ce dont il s'est rendu coupable ?”
― Nathalie Hug, 1, rue des petits pas

“Your boyfriend is a psycho, just like I always thought!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“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!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“Let’s see those claws,” said Albatross. Fathom held out his front talons and Albatross inspected them, one side and then the other, as though he were selecting a pair of precisely matched emeralds. “Hmmm, yes, very interesting,” Albatross said. “This talon definitely has more power than that one.” “It does?” Fathom said with awe, stretching it out so the sunlight shone through the webs between his claws. “Oh, clearly,” said Albatross. “Can’t you tell?” Fathom nodded thoughtfully. “I — yes — of course, it’s more — more tingly, like —” He caught the mischievous expression on his grandfather’s face. “Wait a minute. You’re messing with me!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“The danger came from the white dragon. This was Father, some kind of partner to the dragon who cared. The newly hatched dragonet could hardly look at him without seeing a spiral of confusing flashes: pain, fury, screaming dragons, and blood, everywhere, blood. This
white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday. Father’s mind had patches of damp, rotten vileness all over it.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“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.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“Pearl waved her tail dismissively. “You can thank me by distracting Great-Uncle Humpback if he tries to corner me again with stories about the grand old days. ‘You know, when I was a young whippersnapper, we had scavenger sashimi every afternoon. But where have they all gone, can you tell me that, eh? They can’t have gotten smarter! Someone’s been interfering with my scavenger supply! Some toothy little blowfishes, I’ll show them.’” Her imitation of Humpback’s creaky old voice was pitch-perfect. Indigo giggled. “Someone should eventually tell him that he probably ate them all.” “It’s not going to be me!” Pearl said.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“I mean . . . there are dragons who do bad things, Fathom said. But maybe that doesn't make them all bad. Maybe they can also do good things. Maybe some of those bad things are just mistakes.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
― Enrich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front