The Brightest Night Quotes
"It is nearly impossible to steal from a dragon, particularly a royal one with a palace and guards and very high walls."
"Sunny had always known that she was the right dragon for a Big Heroic Destiny."
"She wasn’t a normal SandWing. Her scales and eyes were the wrong color, and she had no venomous barb at the end of her tail."
"Maybe they should have let the NightWings be swallowed up by the volcano."
"He made up the prophecy. It was all a trick."
"If I go back and tell the others, we can follow them."
"Maybe I’ll just rescue myself, then. That’ll show them."
"Let’s get out of here before she brings back reinforcements."
"I'm done with prophecies. I mean, I'll still kill the dragonets when I find them, but first I have a war to win."
"Dead. They’d never do anything so convenient for me."
"Let’s not be paralyzed with terror. Let’s go."
"We can be there in a few days if we stop moaning and clutching our tails. Come on."
"It must be a NightWing legend. Lucky for me."
"She must have gone back and told someone we had the mirror."
"He plays with his prey for days, making sure they’re nearly paralyzed with terror before he strikes."
"Maybe dragons built this place and kept scavengers here for some reason."
"Scavengers were the ones who’d started the dragon war."
"But what happened here? Who burned down this scavenger den … and why?"
"Thorn wants to know why you’re following those scumdwellers."
"Let me send all my brigands about their duties, and I’ll tell Armadillo to plan a party."
"Would you like me to have those NightWings killed for you?"
"I wanted you. You were the only thing I wanted."
"Everything. We keep the Scorpion Den from becoming a mess of blood and teeth."
"When they’re not too scared to come around and ask for it anyways. We can be very intimidating."
"We're either very lucky or quite unlucky, if there's really a viper out there."
"You could be safe here. The war never comes to the Scorpion Den."
"There's always more to everyone's story, if you bother to find out what it is."
"Don't worry, you'll get all your pardons and your reinstatement."
"You're guaranteed not to escape if I kill you."
"Flower likes mice, and she's always feeding any birds that dare to come down into the courtyards."
"Some pretty strong opinions about tribe purity and not contaminating SandWing blood with cross-tribe breeding."
"If you tell anybody, we'll have to kill them, too."
"It's a risk, though. You're guaranteed not to escape if I kill you."
"But on the fourth talon, how will Burn find my friends if she can't ask me questions? Or use me as a hostage?"
"She aimed for the highest point of the palace that she could see: a spire with an open pavilion platform at the top."
"But there was something strange about this battle. Sunny couldn’t see any unusual colors down there — nothing but the tan, pale yellow, and off-white scales of SandWings."
"Don’t die trying to rescue me. Please, please, please don’t die."
"All I’m saying is that I can’t stand here and watch my mother die trying to save me."
"But Clay had told her about it — the melting scales, the black talonprints burning into her victims, the scorched smell — and it sounded terrifying."
"Sunny paced from one end of the pavilion to the other, her heart pounding."
"He said he was doing something essential that nobody else could do."
"Don’t ever let any dragon make you feel like you shouldn’t exist. You understand?"
"I wish I could stay with my mother, with those warm strong wings close by to keep her safe."
"I suspect I’d rather burn to death than end up stuffed in Burn’s collection."
"After all, I am not going anywhere." - The dragon
"There's nothing I can do. I did all the wrong things ... a long, long time ago ... and nothing can change that." - The dragon
"I can't believe I have a daughter." - The dragon
"I wish I knew for sure that this would work." - Sunny
"When the world is all wrong, I'm going to be a dragon who does something about it." - Sunny
"Why shouldn't I try? So what if there's no foretold destiny saying I have to. Shouldn't I do it anyway, just because I want to?" - Sunny
"We are not killing any of them. We're not using magic to do something underhanded."
"We won’t be safe, and neither will our friends and all the dragons who count on us, until the war is over."
"But when I saw that he was alive, I was just — really, really happy."
"It’s important you tell her. We don’t know how else to reach her."
"I could be your ally. In the dark, maybe no one will look twice at my tail."
"I want all your subjects to be safe. That’s why I’m here."
"We’re choosing peace. That’s the important thing."
"It’s not such a bad destiny, Sunny. I’d die to save you and Starflight over and over if I had to."
"We could use the caves as classrooms but have everyone outside as much as possible."
"Dragonets who grow up together will see how alike they really are, no matter what tribe they’re from."
"That’s true. And things turned out all right anyway."