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"I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack's best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself."
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"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."

"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."

"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."

"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."

"If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one."

"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."

"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."

"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
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"The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space.'Snowkit!' Speckletail yowled desperately."

"Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???Graystripe:...Drowning?Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?"

"He gave his life to save the thing that mattered most to him: his Clanmates, he meowed softly. 'He truly has the stars at his paws now. You will see him again, when it is time."

"She dabbed at the surface of the water with one paw, and the moon fluttered like silver wings before settling again as the water stilled. Letting out a faint mrrow of wonder, Half Moon dabbed again and again. However often she disturbed the surface, the moon was still there.'It doesn't give up, does it? Half Moon blinked at Jayfeather. 'It's always there, constant like the stones in this cave. Maybe we should be like the moon's reflection, holding fast whatever happens?"

"We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory."

"A breeze stirred Dovewing's pelt, as is someone had walked past. She lifted her head an saw two figures standing just beyond her Clanmates. One was a badger with a narrow, striped face, the other a grotesque, hairless cat who's blind, bulging eyes saw nothing but everything. They met her gaze and nodded, just once. 'Thank you.' Dovewing heard, quieter then a sigh. 'There will be three, kin of your kin, who will hold the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise fro the shadows. This s how it always has been, and always will be.' - Rock and Midnight, The Last Hope"
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