“I'm not going to get myself hurt." I'm too important to let that happen.
~Jaypaw”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“Truth is a powerful weapon ... We must be careful how we use it." (Quote by Spottedleaf, page 5)”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“i freaking LOVE the warriors i will cry,laugh,”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“Stop it, you two!” Spiderleg’s stern mew echoed around the hollow as he separated his kits. “We were just playing,” Toadkit complained. “Well, play something quieter!” Spiderleg snapped. “I don’t envy you, Graystripe. Two kits are hard enough.” Then he yelped in pain. “When I told you to play something else, Toadkit, I didn’t mean attacking my tail!”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“There is a darkness coming that not even Starclan can prevent. And when it comes, we will be helpless to protect the Clans. Helpless even to protect ourselves.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“The light will return, just like the sun came back, but it will be your light, and yours to control.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“The time of the Clans was coming to an end, and he, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf were the only ones who could save them.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“Poor Cinderpaw’ll think she’s being stalked by toadstools,” Lionpaw mewed.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“begged. “He’s just outside,” Jaypaw told her. “Good.” Millie sighed as the spasm left her. “Don’t”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“Have they given up the warrior code?” Hollypaw’s breath was coming in fast gulps. They’ve given up more than the code. Jaypaw glanced at the sky. “Is”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
“I want to kiss you,” he whispered, barely making a sound. “Real bad.”
I was shocked into stillness. Levi’s warm breath drifted over my face, and I found it in me to ask, “Why?”
Levi pushed closer to me, his breathing stuttered. “Because you’re you.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Soul
“That night Bindi, Steve, and I all curled up in bed together. “As long as we’re together,” Steve said, “everything will be just fine.”
It was spooky, and I didn’t want to think about it, but it did indeed seem that Steve got into trouble more when he was off on his own. Around that time, on a shoot in Africa with the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, Steve slipped as he rushed to get a shot of a lizard. He put his hand out to catch himself, and placed it down right in the middle of a euphorbia plant. The bush broke into pieces, and the splinters sank deep into Steve’s hand.
Kalahari bushmen use the resin of the euphorbia plant to poison-tip their spears. Steve’s arm swelled and turned black. He became feverish and debated whether to go home or to the hospital. He sought the advice of the bushmen who worked with the poisonous resin regularly.
“What do you do if you get nailed by this poison?”
The bushmen smiled broadly. “We die,” they said.
John filmed every step of the way as the skin of Steve’s arm continued to blacken and he rode out the fever. He worried about the residual effects of gangrene.
Ultimately, Steve survived, but he felt the effects for weeks afterward. Once again, Steve and I discussed how uneasy we felt when we were apart. Every time we were together on a trip, we knew we’d be okay. When we were apart, though, we shared a disconcerting feeling that was hard to put into words. It made me feel hollow inside.
The Africa trip had taken Steve away from us for three weeks, and Bindi had changed so much while he was away. We agreed that we would never be apart from Bindi and that at least one of us would always be with her. I just felt bad for Steve that I had been the lucky one for the past three weeks. He missed her so much.
The next documentary would be different.”
― Terri Irwin, quote from Steve & Me
“I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.”
― George Carlin, quote from When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Caro was coming round to the fact of unhappiness: to a realization that Dora created unhappiness and the she was bound to Dora.”
― Shirley Hazzard, quote from The Transit of Venus
“Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own self that each of them is most afraid of resembling. Each of them sets up a pattern and imitates it; he doesn't even choose the pattern he imitates: he accepts a pattern that has been chosen for him. And yet I verily believe there are other things to be read in man. But people don't dare to - they don't dare to turn the page. Laws of imitation! Laws of fear, I call them. The fear of finding oneself alone - that is what they suffer from - and so they don't find themselves at all. I detest such moral agoraphobia - the most odious cowardice I call it. Why, one always has to be alone to invent anything - but they don't want to invent anything. The part in each of us that we feel is different from other people is just the part that is rare, the part that makes our special value - and that is the very thing people try to suppress. They go on imitating. And yet they think they love life.”
― André Gide, quote from The Immoralist
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