Quotes About Fear

It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger

Is this the beginning of the end?

Jagged Peak was buried alive.

They were as superstitious as owls!

Ah, a puny apprentice. Easy prey for Yellowfang

a bully, but no brains.

Stormpaw won't," Goosekit growled. "He's going to try to kill me.

Squirrelpaw staggered blindly through the mud, keeping her eyes fixed on Brambleclaw's tabby pelt. As long as he was in sight, she felt she would be safe.

I'm not frightened of joining StarClan," Crowpaw spat back. "The forest is dying anyway. At least in StarClan, Feathertail will be waiting for me!

Goosekit whimpered and buried his nose under his thick gray tail. The

Fear-Dog told me . . . we must return to our camp," he growled, his voice throaty with drool. "Now?" whimpered the little brown dog. "Now. Immediately." Terror swiped a trembling paw at her face, though this time he missed. "He says . . . we are to kill any strange dogs. Kill them all. Kill them on sight. Now go!

Alpha's muzzle curled in disbelief, but he went on watching Fiery intently. "Mad? In what way?" "Insane," Fiery told him. "Like a dog with the water-madness"—at this several Packmembers gasped and growled nervously—"but not that. His jaws foamed and he had fits, but he was in control. Very much in control. He rules his Pack with fear.

Firestar was left facing Scourge. The small black cat looked unmoved. Now Firestar knew not to underestimate him due to his size. He knew he had never faced a cat more dangerous than this, who in a single blow could destroy a leader with nine lives.

vulnerable.

He knew he had been unfair, but they had asked a question he wasn't ready to answer, a question so frightening that he couldn't begin to think what it might mean. What if Bluestar never recovered?

Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going," Bramblestar responded drily.

Bluefur pushed herself forward, springing onto the first stone. Water splashed and gurgled around her. The blood roared in her ears. Stupid Goosefeather! She leaped to the next stone, swaying for a heart-stopping moment before she found her balance and gathered her haunches to jump again. Stupid prophecy! And again. It's probably not even true. The final stone wobbled as she landed, and water washed over her paws. Don't let me drown! She flung herself to the shore, panting.

Right." Brightheart ducked

Sandstorm sighed. "I was afraid you were going to say that.

What's the matter? Shadowclan attacking? Starclan walking among us?

With this life I give you courage. Fear will always pull at your tail, but the courage I give you now will always draw you on.

So with this life I give you acceptance. Accept with all your heart what you cannot change, and fear will vanish.

Somewhere in there Clear Sky could be dying—and there's nothing I can do about it.

She didn't want to be remembered as the kit who was jumped on by a dead squirrel.