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“Until she WINS!” Cliff sang, vaulting into the air.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“not fair,”
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“Tourmaline”
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“Scarlet’s gladiator fetish.”
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“Turtle yelling “AAAH!” and leaping backward as the stick he’d poked her with burst into flames. Peril stretched, yawning. “Well, what did you think was going to happen?”
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“He hummed a line of his song. “We see.”
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“I learned a few things from Queen Scarlet, who could burn dragons without touching them.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“I’m sorry!” he yelped. “Sorry, sorry, sorry! I missed. Here, let me try again.” She eyed him suspiciously. He looked not so much “deeply repentant,” as “trying to hide his giggles.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“It’s almost time for us to swim,” Turtle said cheerfully. “You can worry about that instead.” He canted his wings and swooped down toward the river. Uneasily, Peril followed him. Don’t think about it. There’s nothing I can do about this NightWing right now anyway. I have to wait until he shows his face a bit closer to me, and then I can burn it off, and then everything will be fine. She flexed her talons, feeling the warm shift of her firescales, and then splashed down right behind Turtle. The river was cold and extremely wet and full of flappy slippery things. Peril did not like it ONE BIT. The flappy slippery things (she assumed most of them were fish) kept touching her and then not bursting into flames and that was so weird. Even the feeling of water all around her scales, pressing in on her, was extremely unsettling. She was also not particularly fond of how much faster than her Turtle could suddenly go. He powered forward in huge wingbeats, steering gracefully with the current, while she flopped around snorting water up her snout and generally feeling like a hippo. A hippo floated past, eyeing her with serene scorn. Fine. Not like a hippo. Like an ostrich suddenly plunked in the middle of an ocean, how about that.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Peril and Turtle swam under a bridge packed end-to-end with merchant stalls and dragons calling out to customers. (“The finest rugs in Possibility!” “The actual finest rugs in Possibility!” “Roasted crocodile on sale!” “Don’t eat that! His crocodile was rotting in the streets yesterday! We have seagulls caught in the air this morning!”)”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“It’s furry and sleeps upside down and has a really chewy tail,” said”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Why aren’t you scared of me?” she asked. “I am,” he said. “I just … you’re not the only dragon I know with dangerous powers.” “Really?” she said. What did that mean? Who was he talking about? But before he could answer, a roar billowed down through the corridors, like a rolling smoke cloud. Turtle flared his wings, his green eyes wide. “What was that?” “Probably Queen Ruby,” Peril said. Was Ruby yelling at Clay? Was Clay all right? Did he need her to come protect him? She glanced back at the row of fire globes leading uphill to the school. “Maybe they just told her that I’m here.” “Want to go find out?” Turtle asked. Peril frowned at him. “So I can get roared at face-to-face? That does sound more fun.” “I don’t mean go say hi,” Turtle protested. “I mean, I’m going to eavesdrop to see what’s happening, so do you want to come?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“You big sap,” he said. “And I can’t even punch you to shut you up.” “You could,” she said. “That would be pretty funny for me.”
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“necklace or a rock or a piece of cheese.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“She spent the rest of the morning flying out into the desert, chasing down a desert fox (who escaped into a hole and was kind of too cute to eat anyway), and then catching a large white bird in midair and eating that instead. She also set fire to a tall cactus because it was giving her a superior look and she felt like it.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“She spent the rest of the morning flying out into the desert, chasing down a desert fox (who escaped into a hole and was kind of too cute to eat anyway),”
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“Tsunami was a fireball that blazed up and down and sideways at everything that made her mad (which was most things).”
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“She’s a RainWing,” he hissed. “She’d laugh at me just as much as any of her tribe, if she’d met me before I found my power.”
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“WHAT WAS THIS. WHY DID IT HURT SO MUCH. WHO COULD SHE SET ON FIRE TO MAKE IT STOP.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Maybe she needed more friends, so that some of them could be expendable.”
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“The SkyWing was holding the severed head of Queen Glory of the RainWings.”
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“it’s a dark world, Peril, but you and I will stand in the fire and be safe, because we have each other”?”
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“She also set fire to a tall cactus because it was giving her a superior look and she felt like it.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Idiotic hopeful former self had hoped for them. Idiotic hopeful former self was very stupid.”
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“ALL RIGHT, NIGHTWING, HERE’S A BLANK SCROLL. GO AHEAD AND TRY TO CONVINCE ME THAT YOU’RE A DRAGON WHO EVEN DESERVES TO LIVE, LET ALONE ONE I SHOULD WASTE MY TIME ON. I DO ENJOY BEING AMUSED.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“I AM,” Peril said. She thought MUSHROOMS AND MONGOOSES at the NightWing as loud as she could, and Moon started giggling.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Summary: Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission — find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her will be a help or a hindrance. ISBN”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“RainWing”
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“I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,”
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“No dragon was safe in the Sky Palace, but the ones in the most danger by far were the daughters of Queen Scarlet. Or was it now daughter, singular? Ruby hadn’t seen her sister, Tourmaline, in three days. Not since the night they went flying together and, high in the starlit sky, glowing in the light of two of the moons, Tourmaline had whispered that she was almost ready. “Don’t be an idiot. You’re only ten, and furthermore, you’ll never be ready,” Ruby had whispered back. “She killed her mother plus all three of her sisters and eleven of ours. There’s no way to defeat her.” “She can’t be queen forever,” Tourmaline said. “She has been queen forever,” Ruby argued. “Twenty-four years is a long time but not that long,” said Tourmaline. “Queen Oasis was queen longer than that, and look what happened to her.” “Are you planning to throw a scavenger at Mother?” Ruby asked. “Because I’m sure she’d appreciate a snack before she kills you.” “It’s always going to be like this,” Tourmaline hissed. She flicked clouds away with her dark orange wings. “Until one of us challenges her and wins. You and I are the only ones left now — the only hope the SkyWings have of a decent queen. Ruby, if I defeat her and become queen, we can get out of this war.” Ruby wasn’t so sure about that. She’d met Burn, and she suspected the SandWing wouldn’t let her allies go that easily. But it didn’t matter — there was no way Tourmaline could win a battle with their mother. “The prophecy will take care of the war,” she argued. “The brightest night is in four days … ” “Right.” Tourmaline rolled her eyes. “I’ll just wait for a bunch of eggs that haven’t even hatched yet to save us. Ruby, I don’t want to wait for things to happen to me. I want to make them happen.” “I don’t want to watch you die,” Ruby growled. Her sister hovered in front of her for a moment. Stars glittered in her eyes, searching Ruby’s. She’s wondering if I want the throne for myself, Ruby thought. She thinks I’m trying to talk her out of it because I’m planning something. Like I’m that stupid. “Well, don’t worry, I won’t do it yet,” Tourmaline promised. “Another few months of training, maybe. I’m feeling really strong, though. I beat Vermilion in a fight the other day. Want to hear about it?” Ruby”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril