These are memorable quotes from the Warriors saga that warmed our hearts, made us cry, made us laugh, and made us go "Aww."
WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW
After a few moments, Spottedleaf lowered her head and turned to Bluestar. "It was a message from StarClan," she murmured. A distant look came into her eyes. "Fire alone can save our Clan."
- Prologue, Page 5
"If you're the most dangerous thing the woods has to offer, then I think I can handle it."
- Rusty, Chapter 1, Page 14
"Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his careful stalking to stagger comically
across the clearing. "I think I'll have to settle for hunting stupid mice. They won't stand a chance. I shall just wander up to them and sit on them till they surrender."
- Chapter 5, Page 68
As the rest of the Clan began to melt away back to their dens, Tigerclaw pushed past Fireheart. The ThunderClan deputy slowed as he passed and hissed quietly into his ear, "Don't think you can outwit me, kittypet. Be careful what you tell Bluestar."
- Chapter 25, Page 271
"I hope he has them chasing blue squirrels all day!" Graystripe hissed to Fireheart as they headed toward the corner where a few pieces of fresh-kill remained from last night.
"But there aren't any blue squirrels," Fireheart mewed in confusion.
"Precisely!" Graystripe's amber eyes gleamed.
- Chapter 1, Page 8
Fireheart recognized the hunted look in Ravenpaw's eyes as he spoke about his old mentor. "We said you'd been killed by a ShadowClan patrol," he answered quietly. Two WindClan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience.
"Oh, yes," meowed Ravenpaw, raising his voice. "We loners eat Clan apprentices whenever we can catch one."
The WindClan apprentices shot him a scornful look. "You don't scare us," they mewed.
"Really?" purred Ravenpaw. "Well, I guess your meat would be tough and stringy, anyway."
- Chapter 6, Page 74
"Okay." Cinderpaw raced down the slope, across the hollow, and up to Fireheart's side, sending fallen leaves flying everywhere.
Graystripe leaped up and caught one as it drifted past his nose. He pinned it down with a purr of satisfaction and saw Brackenpaw staring at him. "Er, never miss a chance to practice your hunting skills," Graystripe told him quickly.
- Chapter 11, Page 122
"You idiot!" she spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?"
"Drowning?" replied Graystripe.
The silver tabby flicked her ears, and Fireheart saw a glimmer of amusement in her eyes. "Can't you drown yourself in your own territory?"
Graystripe's whiskers twitched. "Ah, but who would rescue me there?" he rasped.
- Chapter 11, Page 129
She dipped her head graciously but hissed, "Hurry, go now!" She looked over her shoulder. "if my father knew that I'd rescue a ThunderClan intruder, he'd shred me for kit bedding!"
"Why'd you save me then?" teased Graystripe.
The tabby looked away. "Instinct. I couldn't watch any cat drown. Now go away!"
- Chapter 11, Page 130
Graystripe lowered his voice. "Stay out of it, will you?" he spat. "I'm going to keep on seeing her, whatever you do or say."
- Chapter 17, Page 185
Cinderpaw let her leg drop and lay still for a moment; then she pushed herself up. Fireheart watched her quietly as she shook her head. "I'm never going to be a warrior, am I?"
Fireheart couldn't lie to her. "No," he whispered. "I'm so sorry." He stretched his muzzle toward her and licked her head. After a few moments, she gave a long sigh and ay down again.
- Chapter 22, Page 233-234
"It's not his last life," she rasped, "and even if it were, I couldn't kill him."
"Why not? StarClan would honor you for it." Fireheart could not believe her words. The name Brokenstar had always made this old she-cat bristle with rage.
Yellowfang dragged her gaze from Brokenstar and looked at Fireheart. Her eyes clouded with pain and grief as she murmured, "He is my son."
- Chapter 26, Page 268
"Beware a warrior you cannot trust."
- Spottedleaf, Chapter 28, Page 297
Graystripe held his gaze for a moment, then meowed, "Fireheart, you were right. The battle wasn't easy. It felt like I was fighting Silverstream's Clan mates, not enemy warriors." He lowered his eyes, ashamed. "But I still can't give her up."
The gray warrior's words filled Fireheart with foreboding, but he couldn't help sympathizing with his friend. "This is something you have to work out by yourself," he meowed. "It's not my place to judge you." Graystripe looked up as Fireheart went on. "Graystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend."
- Chapter 30, Page 316-317
"Well, if it isn't our newest apprentice, Firepaw!"
- Longtail, Chapter 15, Page 154
"Was he left to die in the forest, or scavenge a living among the twolegs? No! Because there are cats here tonight who have taken him in. They are traitors to the warrior code, and to every other cat in the forest!"
- Nightstar, Chapter 18, Page 187
His friend did not respond. Fireheart picked up the kit with his teeth, and left Graystripe beside the cat he had loved more than his Clan, more than honor, more than life itself.
- Chapter 21, Page 224
"Not for much longer. I'm going to kill you, and kill you again. As many times as it takes for you to join StarClan forever. It's time
for me to lead this Clan!"
- Tigerclaw, Chapter 27, Page 274
"Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood."
- Tigerclaw, Chapter 28, Page 289
"Fireheart, every cat in the Clan can see that
Sandstorm is very, very fond of you!"
- Cinderpelt, Chapter 13, Page 155
"Thank you for bringing me to ThunderClan. Tell
Bluestar I have always been grateful for the home she gave me. This is a good
place to die. I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan
has destined you to be."
- Yellowfang, Chapter 27, Page 282
"This is where a battle will not be fought, and
blood will not be spilled."
- Spottedleaf, Chapter 11, Page 126
"Bluestar, don't leave us," he begged.
"I must," his leader whispered. "I have fought
my last battle." She was panting in her efforts to speak. "When I saw the Clan
at Sunningrocks, the strong helping the weak . . . and I knew that you and the
others had gone to confront the pack . . . I knew my Clan was loyal. I knew
StarClan had not turned their backs on us. I knew . . ." Her voice failed and
she struggled to continue. "I knew that I could not leave you to face the danger
alone."
- Chapter 27, Page 310
"Fire will save the Clan," she murmured, and
Fireheart remembered the mysterious prophecy that he had heard from his earliest
days in ThunderClan. "You never understood, did you?" Bluestar went on. "Not
even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself,
when fire raged through our camp. Yet I see the truth now. Fireheart, you are
the fire who will save ThunderClan."
- Chapter 27, Page 311
"You will be a great leader." Bluestar's voice
was the merest whisper. "One of the greatest the forest has ever known. You will
have the warmth of fire to protect your Clan and the fierceness of fire to
defend it. You will be Firestar, the light of ThunderClan."
- Chapter 27, Page 311
Tigerstar stepped forward, shouldering the gray
warrior aside. "I am Tigerstar, the leader of ShadowClan," he growled. "And I
have a proposition for you."
- Prologue, Page 5
"Something terrible is coming, Firestar. Four
will become two. Lion and tiger will meet in battle, and blood will rule the
forest."
- Bluestar, Chapter 4, Page 55
"You saved my life once, Firestar. I'll never
be able to repay you for that. But if trouble with Tigerstar comes, I'll be
proud to stand with the warriors of ThunderClan and fight him to the death."
- Ravenpaw, Chapter 5, Page 65
"Join you? After everything you've done?
I'd rather die!"
- Bramblepaw to Tigerstar, Chapter 21, Page 224
"Collars?" Ashpaw spat behind him,
echoing his thoughts. The apprentice's voice was sharp with disgust. "Look at
them--they're kittypets! We won't have any trouble beating them."
- Chapter 22, Page 226
"You see, Firestar?" Tigerstar's voice was
exultant. "I am even more powerful than StarClan, for I have changed the Clans
in the forest from four to two. TigerClan and BloodClan will rule together."
- Chapter 22, Page 227
Bluestar ignored him. "And now we're watching
you. You are the cat we have chosen, Firestar. You are the fire who will save
the Clan. No warrior of StarClan brought you here. You came of your own accord
because you have a warrior's spirit and the heart of a true Clan cat. Your faith
in StarClan will give you the strength you need."
- Chapter 25, Page 263
The she-cat raised her tail to silence him.
"Perhaps your quarrel with Tigerstar gave you the strength you need," she went
on. "All along, you did what you thought was right, even when your Clan mates
disagreed with you. You suffered loneliness and uncertainty, and that has made
you what you are now . . . a gifted, intelligent leader with the courage to lead
your Clan in its darkest hour."
- Bluestar, Chapter 29, Page 303
"Scourge!" Firestar yowled. "Turn and face me!"
The small black cat whipped around, letting go
of Cloudtail in his shock. "How . . . I killed you!
"You did," Firestar spat back at him. "But I am
a leader with nine lives who fights alongside StarClan. Can you say as much?"
- Chapter 29, Page 304