The Flames of Hope Quotes

“Now you are all fair and kind and incapable of cruelty or injustice”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Snowfall could probably have defeated the HiveWings just by staring coldly at them.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Wren could probably take down a Hive all by herself if she had fire and talons. Sky was more likely to bump into a Hive and then apologize to its walls.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“My brain words
~Luna

Words off my head.
~Swordtail”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Turn your eyes, your wings, your fire To the land across the sea Where dragons are poisoned and dragons are dying And no one can ever be free. A secret lurks inside their eggs. A secret hides within their book. A secret buried far below May save those brave enough to look.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Why should I fight? There’s nothing to fight for.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“It’s only me,” he said in an even smaller voice. “Just Dusky. I can be really quiet, really. You won’t even notice me. Please?” He hesitated, then added softly, “I don’t want to be alone in the dark anymore. I’m afraid I’ll get lost and no one will ever find me.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Oh no!” Luna cried. “Moon, what happened? How did the plant get you?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“My whole tribe needs me to rescue them. Come on, Luna. Sit up and keep going.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“The tiny human yelled something from Sky’s back, but the wind whipped her itty-bitty voice away.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“But this wasn’t a dinner party; it was an epic life-or-death battle with an evil queen and her evil tribe and also a vitally important rescue mission”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“It made no sense. Why would a different wing shape, or a slightly different scale color, or antennae, make one dragon superior and another dragon worth nothing?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“(The rules: Nobody mentions the abyss. Nobody goes near the abyss. Everyone pretends the abyss does not exist anymore. Everyone acts like they hear absolutely zero whispers and feel zero weirdness coming from the creepy big dark hole.)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Blue and Swordtail would have to learn to live with invisible girlfriends.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Maybe the tiniest flash of me dancing on Wasp’s grave?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Then a terrifying roar split the air,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“together. “I promise you, sir. We had the hardest time getting to it — I promise we wouldn’t have risked being sent back!” Cottonmouth snorted. “That I can believe. Well, it had better be worth it, then.” He leaned closer to the shell, glaring at the faint shimmer of orange scales underneath. “At least it’s a big one. When I break this dragon, it will burn the Diamond Empire’s armies to ash for me.” “I heard —” the other man began, then broke off unhappily. “What?” Cottonmouth snapped. “I heard the Diamond Empire and the Jaguar Empire are both trying to tame dragons, too,” the man mumbled. Cottonmouth laughed bitterly. “Yes. No one can keep a secret around here. But most of the dragons in their territories are those swimming ones. Can’t breathe fire, according to the scholars. Our dragons will be the most dangerous, once we get them to work.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“The humans had painted themselves as victims, dragons as barbaric monsters.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“flickered through, and now they were in a clinical box of a room, long and lined with tables on either side. On top of the tables were cages, each one with a dragon egg in it. Luna hissed in a breath. There were so many — twenty at least, with ten more cages containing broken eggshells where those dragonets must have hatched. The door at the far end was flung open suddenly, and Cottonmouth stormed in with a man behind him carrying another egg box. “In here,” Cottonmouth said, throwing open one of the cages. “I don’t believe there was only one egg in that nest. That dragon was enormous.” “Biggest I’ve ever seen,” the man said anxiously, unpacking the stuffing around the egg. “How could a dragon that size have only one egg?” Cottonmouth demanded. “And why would it hide it so carefully? Are you lying to me? Did my stupid brother decide to leave the rest behind?” “I’m not lying!” the man cried. He stopped short of touching the egg”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“a small gift of magic from the IceWing queen, who was a flipping terrifying dragon, if you asked Luna. Snowfall could probably have defeated the HiveWings just by staring coldly at them.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Luna liked to imagine a scene where they all flew into a Hive, pointed at Moon, and yelled: “BEHOLD THE SECOND COMING OF CLEARSIGHT! SHE SAYS ACTUALLY QUEEN WASP IS A JERK AND SILKWINGS ARE GREAT AND SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN QUEEN! SO THERE!” And then all the HiveWings would cry, “Oh no! We have been so wretched and wrong! Tell us how to be better dragons, Luna!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Uh-oh,” Qibli said to Luna. “I think I’m about to be called a preposterous whippersnapper.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“The problem with belonging to a village that worshipped a big ominous hole in the ground is that holes in the ground tended to be very cryptic about their mystical instructions.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Stop that,” Jerboa said, batting her away. “This is my weird-looking art fail; get your claws off it.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Save Pineapple and Qibli and Tsunami!” Luna added.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Is it a boy human or a girl human?” Sky asked. “Neither? Both? We’d have to ask them,” Wren said. “They use they and them pronouns. Like that traveling librarian we met, Sky, remember? Sage?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“othermind”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“No Tsunami or Sundew to do the fighting.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“Bullfrog. No Tsunami or Sundew to do the fighting.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope

“blue SeaWing blood”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Flames of Hope