"Not so fast, Tigerclaw! This apprentice needs to keep as still as possible until the cut has healed. We don't want him opening his wound by jumping about trying to please you. Leave him alone. Even you know better than to argue with a medicine cat, Tigerclaw."

"With this life I give you love. Use it well, for all the cats in your care-and especially for Sandstorm."

"Firestar and I never discovered what we might have meant to each other. I was alive in the forest for such a short time after he came to ThunderClan. But I know for sure that he and I could never have been mates. I was and always will be a medicine cat. That comes first, more than any cat that walks the forest, more even than Firestar."