“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, quote from 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!”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “No!” Kinkajou cried. “We’re eating together! You haven’t even finished your hairy smelly carcass thing! Sit!”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “We don’t share IceWing secrets with mere RainWings, haughty sniff.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “As NONE of this is RELEVANT to TODAY’S TOPIC, which is the Scorching. Ahem.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “Moon, can Tamarin touch your face?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from 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, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “Icicle gave him an amused, arch look. How adorable, a RainWing with a crush on my brother. Winter”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “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, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “But we’ll get to the bottom of it,” Tsunami promised. “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, quote from 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, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “Carnelian unfolded her wings with a majestic scowl and flowed off the rock ledge like a wrathful waterfall.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                    “What?” Kinkajou asked. “What? What? WHAT?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from 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!” the chickens shrilled back.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Moon Rising
                                
                                
                                “various marvels concerning parrots, and mines, and Mexicans,”
                                
                                
                                    ― Charles Dickens, quote from The Cricket on the Hearth
                                
                            
                                “The truth is, I'd give it all up, the sentience, the endowments, and I'd go back to Scranton and work in that damned store and stock fucking Pez dispensers for the rest of my life if it meant that I could still be with you until I die. ”
                                
                                
                                    ― Jennifer DeLucy, quote from Seers of Light
                                
                            
                                “knew. And his ex had seemed so kind on those first few dates, so infatuated with his Navy uniform, so enthusiastic in tearing up his bed. His ex-wife, a former stripper named Trish Bardoe, had married on the rebound a fellow by the name of Eddie Stipowicz, an unemployed engineer with a drinking problem. Lee thought she was heading for disaster and had tried to get custody of Renee on the grounds that her mom and stepfather could not provide for her. Well, about that time, Eddie, a sneaky runt Lee despised, invented, mostly by accident, some microchip piece of crap that had made him a gazillionaire. Lee’s custody battle had lost its juice after that. To add insult to injury, there had been stories on Eddie in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and a number of other publications. He was famous. Their house had even been featured in Architectural Digest. Lee had gotten that issue of the Digest. Trish’s new home was grossly huge, mostly crimson red or eggplant so dark it made Lee think of the inside of a coffin. The windows were cathedral-size, the furniture large enough to become lost in and there were enough wood moldings, paneling and staircases to heat a typical midwestern town for an entire year. There were also stone fountains sculpted”
                                
                                
                                    ― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
                                
                            
                                “it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger”
                                
                                
                                    ― Kate Grenville, quote from The Secret River
                                
                            
                                “Chocolate's better than sex any day.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Cherise Sinclair, quote from Lean on Me
                                
                            
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