Prisoners Quotes

“(Mother was doing that dragon thing of assuming her special perfect egg had a female dragonet inside. WRONG.)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“disliked it intensely when Qibli made clever observations like that, and it happened about forty times a day.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“You're not nothing.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“The gibbering mad SandWing a few cages down who never shuts up, all night long? (What is her story? Has she really been here since the rule of Queen Oasis?)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“This is Pyrrhia, where there are seven dragon tribes. There were seven queens. Then came a great war, a prophecy, a volcano … and after the War of SandWing Succession was over, a shift in the balance of power. Not everyone approves of the new SandWing queen. In fact, the only topic more controversial is the new queen of the NightWings. Can they hold on to their thrones? Should they? In the dungeon of the SandWing stronghold, two prisoners await … what? A trial? Imminent execution? They’re not exactly sure. They are NightWings, but they cannot go back to their tribe. They are in exile; they are too dangerous to be allowed to return. And yet: too complicated to be killed. (They hope.) So they wait, and scheme (well, one of them schemes. The other one is catching up on sleeping and eating). And they wonder what will happen to them. All they want is access to the most dangerous weapon of all: a chance to tell their own story. They are prisoners. But perhaps that is about to change.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

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

“I hatched on an island of smoke and fire, under a volcano that breathed death all day and hid the stars and the three moons at night.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“But I didn’t see why Mother needed another egg when she had me.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“That’s Morrowseer — not exactly a “good morning, how are you, nice grim sulfur-smelling weather we’re having” kind of dragon.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“Kind of an idiot MudWing move,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“a dragon called Vengeance got a demonstration all over his stupid face. (No big loss, for the record. He was hideous before the encounter with that RainWing, too.)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“NightWings will try to counter your sarcasm with more sarcasm, as though every conversation is a competition to see whose wit is more biting. No one ever stops to acknowledge that someone else was funny.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“Instead he showed up once a week, blathered on for hours using the biggest, most made-up words possible, and then slithered back to his lab, leaving all of us even dumber than we were before.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“The gibbering mad SandWing a few cages down who never shuts up, all night long? (What is her story? Has she really been here since the rule of Queen Oasis?) Or”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“I called you a conniving, lying snake,” I spat. “Why”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“And then we heard the THUMP-THUMP-THUMP of grumpy talons stomping our way, and in comes gigantic Morrowseer, all frowning and portentous as usual.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“As if you are fast enough to catch a mango. I’d like to see that.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“eventually.)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“If you don’t, you’ll be just another guard I have to kill on my way out. — Fierceteeth”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“Keep reading for a sneak peek of”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“when a dragon called Vengeance got a demonstration all over his stupid face. (No big loss, for the record. He was hideous before the encounter with that RainWing, too.)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“Because it should have been me. I would have been perfect for the prophecy. I would be brilliant at saving the world. I would also have been brilliant at leading the other dragonets, proving that NightWings are the best tribe, and making sure things happened exactly as we wanted them to. Just one problem: I didn’t hatch on the brightest night. I hatched two years too early. STUPID SNIVELING MOONS IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME. And so you know who got to be the all-special chosen NightWing instead? My little brother. HOW UNFAIR IS THAT? I was even there when his magical destiny landed on him. I was standing right next to his annoying egg in our hatchery, talking to our mother. Her black scales gleamed in the firelight as she curled around it, brushing the eggshell lightly with her claws. “Take me hunting,” I wheedled. I don’t wheedle anymore, just for the record. “Please? I need help. I keep losing my prey after I bite it, and I think other dragons are eating it before I find it again.” So we’re clear, I didn’t really need help. I mean, I was as hungry as everyone, but I can take care of myself. What I wanted was for Mother to stop being drippy and boring and for her to leave that egg alone for even half a second. “I can’t, little one.” Mother sighed one of her long, scale-rippling sighs that made her tail flop over. “What if something happens to my egg while I’m gone? It’s so close to hatching now.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“Do you see a hundred other options somewhere?” he barked.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO LET YOU HAVE PAPER AND INK?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“They are prisoners. But perhaps that is about to change.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“My point is that I grew up in the most terrible place in Pyrrhia, but it made me strong. This dungeon is nothing in comparison. Here, we get to eat every day and your queen even lets us out to stretch our wings more frequently than I can believe.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners

“Our genetic superiority will manifest wherever this dragonet hatches and however it is raised.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Prisoners