The Poison Jungle Quotes
"Sundew sometimes liked to imagine that she could fly all the way around the world without stopping, using nothing but her fury to keep her going."
"No, those weren’t allowed on this list."
"It was sort of difficult to rage-fly on the power of hating HiveWings when there were two HiveWings flying right alongside her."
"I don’t want a Pantala covered in poisonous, dragon-eating plants. I want the Pantala of the old stories: the giant forests that stretched from shore to shore."
"It feels like one vast creature with a million eyes."
"You can’t imagine we’d let a weapon like yours fall into our talons and not use it."
"It’s like you cannot keep straight in your heads who are the good guys and who are the bad guys here!"
"It’s not that bad here, right? I mean … I think it’s better with, um … interesting company."
"But can I see you again? Tomorrow night? And the night after that? Maybe also the one after that and the one after that and the one after that?"
"So Sundew kept Willow a secret. Her secret."
"You were gone forever!" Willow said, clasping Sundew’s front talons in hers.
"I'm going to have a heart attack," Willow said.
I did leave the jungle," Sundew said. "Don't freak out.
No way," Willow said. "You really did it?
"I believe that is Belladonna’s rule," Sequoia said, rubbing her forehead.
"We don’t wipe out entire tribes," Tsunami said firmly.
"The future spread out before you! All the secrets of what's to come!"
"You have got to stop shouting," Sundew said.
"But what good would it do to be mad instead? I mean, whenever I do get mad, I usually end up feeling guilty or really tired, or both."
"Being mad makes me want to get up and do something. It makes me want to fix the bad things."
"I like that you want to fix the bad things."
"But are you only mad at the bad things? Or are you mad at everybody, all the time?"
"It’s amazing what you can discover when you’re alone for fifty years with nothing else to do."
"I know you’ll hate me at the end of it. That’s all right. If you could hold back a little bit, though, I’d appreciate it. Fifty years of carrying this guilt has really been a lot."
"She scared me half to death," Willow said softly in Sundew’s ear. "Are you all right? Can you please promise me you’ll never die?"
"I hope you do," he said. "I hope the antidote works. I hope this whole horrible thing ends and we all get to live happily ever after."
"You can't control LeafWings, and you'll never control me."
"I am the rightful owner of this continent."
"We're not doing that and you know it, Sundew."
"We fight that thing and kill it exactly the way Willow did."
"We have to! We have to go now! I REALLY WANT TO DESTROY SOME THINGS."
"This isn't a normal threat! We have to find an un-normal way to fight it."
"You're right that you should be mad. But I'm right that you should focus on who deserves your anger and when to fight."
"If you scatter your anger around like dandelion seeds, you’ll hurt everyone."
"We'll get everyone to safety, figure out how to stop the othermind, gather some allies."
"And then we'll be back to deal with you."