Moon Rising Quotes

“Everyone stop moving!” he bellowed. “Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Ha ha, imagine Winter singing! I wonder if he can scowl and sing and look darkly handsome and mortally offended all at the same time. Probably.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“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?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“There are about thirty of us,” Turtle said with a shrug. “THIRTY?” Tsunami shouted. “I have THIRTY BROTHERS?” “Well, thirty-two,” he said. His gaze caught Moon watching, and he wrinkled his snout in an amused way.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Isn’t this exciting? I’m so excited I can hardly STAND IT. That’s why I’m this color, by the way. I have been trying all morning to turn myself something more dignified and I can’t do it; my scales are all like, YAY WE’RE REALLY HERE! and will not listen to me.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“You’d better be all right or I will tie you to a tree and cover you with hallucinogenic frogs. Tamarin, please wake up.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“No!” Kinkajou cried. “We’re eating together! You haven’t even finished your hairy smelly carcass thing! Sit!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Who wants to go hunting?” Tsunami nearly shouted. “I know I do! Great idea, Tsunami! No arguing with the Head of School; off we go!” She shot off the ledge and whooshed away into the clouds. Carnelian snorted. “I guess that discussion is over,” she said.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“We don’t share IceWing secrets with mere RainWings, haughty sniff.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“As NONE of this is RELEVANT to TODAY’S TOPIC, which is the Scorching. Ahem.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“We’ll find the dragon who set that bomb, and then I will tear off his wings and hang him from the eastern peak of Jade Mountain.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“She’s frightened of me. Mother would be so proud. He turned away, skewering a fish on one of his claws. I guess I did threaten to slice off her face.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Hey, igloo-face, that’s not cool,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Beware the darkness of dragons, Beware the stalker of dreams, Beware the talons of power and fire, Beware one who is not what she seems. Something is coming to shake the earth, Something is coming to scorch the ground. Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice Unless the lost city of night can be found.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Moon, can Tamarin touch your face?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Darkstalker?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Eight dragons in one small cave, all thinking at the same time. How was she going to get through this? “Let’s go around and introduce ourselves,” Tsunami said. “I mean, maybe it’s unnecessary, but that’s what Sunny said to do. And then she said I probably wouldn’t listen to her anyway, so I am proving her wrong, so there. I’m Tsunami, if anyone didn’t know. I was going to give myself a title like Commander of Recruitment, but then for some reason everyone voted that I would be terrible at recruiting, whatever that is all about, so they made me Head of School instead. So I’m pretty much the boss. And I’m running your first small group-discussion class, which was Glory’s big idea, so I figure we’ll figure it out together. Any questions?” “Yeah,” said Carnelian. “Are we stuck with this group?” “That’s not quite how I would put it,” said Tsunami. “But yes.” “What if we would prefer to be in a group with other IceWings?” Winter asked. “Such as my sister?” “That’s not how the winglets are set up,” Tsunami said. “But you’ll be in some bigger group classes with her and have plenty of time to make other friends as well.” “I love our winglet,” Kinkajou volunteered. “When do we eat?” Umber asked. “Just kidding. Pretending to be Clay.” He grinned, then shot a look at Qibli. Did he think that was funny? I hope that was funny. Did I sound like an idiot?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“The claws of war are no match for the wings of wisdom.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Everyone stop moving!” he bellowed. “Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!” “SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Icicle gave him an amused, arch look. How adorable, a RainWing with a crush on my brother. Winter”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“I’m interested in going back to my mother, Moon thought. Can I explore that?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“It’s different,” he objected. “Swimming is not the same as trying to fly while getting blown about and whacked in the face with little balls of water and also lightning — have we talked about the lightning?” “He’s coming, too,” Kinkajou said to Moon. Turtle sighed in defeat.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“She knew Kinkajou would have other best friends. Possibly six more by the end of lunchtime.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Moon let herself smile at the fact that fearless, awe-inspiring Tsunami had been the one to bolt, not her.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“The idea of Kinkajou flinging rainbows around in Moon’s dreams as well as in her waking thoughts was a”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“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? That”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Turtle made a “would rather not handle this weather either myself” face and tried to shake some of the rain off his waterlogged wings.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“I can hear others, but no one else can hear me. Makes for a lot of very boring, one-sided conversations. She”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“Onyx.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising

“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.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Moon Rising