Cameron Dokey Quotes & Sayings

Spring works wonders everywhere. — Cameron Dokey

It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold. — Cameron Dokey

When someone refuses to speak, those around him are left to imagine what his thoughts might be, and all too often the possibilities conjured up are not pleasant ones ... Sometimes, no matter how much you wish to proclaim them, it is better to keep your thoughts to yourself. Speaking out when someone else is silent puts the speaker at a disadvantage. — Cameron Dokey

I felt something cold skitter down the back of my legs. — Cameron Dokey

The strongest magic doesn't simply act upon us, it becomes us. Running with our blood, holding us upright from the inside out, just like our bones. — Cameron Dokey

The only thing that will make it possible for you to marry is if you meet your bridegroom on your wedding day, so he doesn't have the chance to get to know you ahead of time. — Cameron Dokey

He had wasted the span of my entire life. — Cameron Dokey

I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair. — Cameron Dokey

For true love comes when it will, not when it is called. — Cameron Dokey

Connecting us, turning the three of us into one. — Cameron Dokey

Rilla," Raoul said, and at the sound of my childhood nickname, my heart gave a pang. "Don't I have the right to claim what is mine?"
"Of course you do," I said ... "But surely not at any cost. — Cameron Dokey

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world. — Cameron Dokey

Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy.
But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it. — Cameron Dokey

There can be no better place to begin your exploration of the world than by stepping our your own back door. — Cameron Dokey

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side. — Cameron Dokey

Stories are tricky things, aren't they? — Cameron Dokey

For instance, here is a puzzle that many minds have pondered: If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it,does it still make a sound? — Cameron Dokey

A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point. — Cameron Dokey

Do you fear to lose me? Have I become so essential to you that you will treasure me always and never take me for granted? — Cameron Dokey

Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. — Cameron Dokey

I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love. — Cameron Dokey

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul? — Cameron Dokey

Of course there are unknowns. And the sooner Aurore begins to meet them, the sooner they will cease to be unknown. That is the point. — Cameron Dokey

No matter how much my heart cried out to be alone. For there was something in it that was clambering to get out. A thing I had not known was there until now. A thing with claws, teeth, and a temper, though I still didn't know what it was called. — Cameron Dokey

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first. — Cameron Dokey

I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out? — Cameron Dokey

I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves. — Cameron Dokey

To be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness. — Cameron Dokey

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. — Cameron Dokey

It all depends on what you think is important, and, when the important stuff is happening, whether you're looking directly at it or looking away. — Cameron Dokey

Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong. — Cameron Dokey

And in my spine, at the very core of me, I am a tiger. Passionate and daring, impetuous, longing to rebel. Unpredictable and quick-tempered. But also determined and as obstinate as a solid wall of shidan--stone. — Cameron Dokey

Oswald: "All your life"
Aurore: "What?"
Oswald: "All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you?"
Aurore: "Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that wasn't what I was going to ask just now."
Oswald: "I tell you I've loved you since the day you were born, and you tell me you want to know something else. There's no one quite like you, is there, Aurore? — Cameron Dokey

None of us can accept all what we may be offered in this life. Sometimes we must say no, even to love. — Cameron Dokey

Like being able to hold the clear, pure essence of the very world itself in within your hands, and then take it in with one long swallow. — Cameron Dokey

The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it. — Cameron Dokey

Long years, and so many of them that, one by one, their hopes for a child began to pack their bags and depart. — Cameron Dokey

The mind is a wonder and can accomplish many things. But it cannot accomplish the impossible. That is a thing only the heart can do. — Cameron Dokey

For tomorrow would be different. Still wonderful, yes. But not filled with this strange wonder. You don't have to be grown up to understand the way things change. To understand that a thing can be truly new only once, and precious because it came to you when you did not look for it. — Cameron Dokey

Acting with discipline requires you to know your true nature and, having come to know it, to bring it under control. — Cameron Dokey

Even so, [ ... in the silence after a winter storm has ceased to howl, in the soft whisper of a morning snowfall, in the way the moonlight sparkles over new-fallen snow, you can feel when she has been near by, ever searching. You can sense the presence of the Winter Child. — Cameron Dokey

Even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at it's core. — Cameron Dokey

I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did."
"It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself."
Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk.
There is no going back now, I thought.
For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb. — Cameron Dokey

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first. — Cameron Dokey

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope. — Cameron Dokey

I am not a fool just because the whole world thinks I look like one. — Cameron Dokey

How do you recognize the face of love?
Can love happen in an instant, or can it only grow slowly, bolstered by the course of time? Is it possible that love might be both? A thing that takes forever to reach its true conclusion, made possible by what occurs in no more than the blink of an eye? — Cameron Dokey

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now. — Cameron Dokey

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all. — Cameron Dokey

You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." "Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them. — Cameron Dokey

Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues. — Cameron Dokey

Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once. — Cameron Dokey

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. — Cameron Dokey

I don't trick." he replied, his voice huffy. "I wheedle and cajole. Occasionally I manipulate, but I'm always very sneaky about i, so you wouldn't know it was happening until it was far too late. — Cameron Dokey

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived — Cameron Dokey

In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself. — Cameron Dokey

What makes you ask that?"
( ... ) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer. — Cameron Dokey

Your possibilities are endless, while mine are already sewn up tight. And even if you never find out, you'll still be whatever you can make of yourself. — Cameron Dokey

But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door. — Cameron Dokey

There is a tale ... It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. — Cameron Dokey

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all. — Cameron Dokey

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy. — Cameron Dokey

I kissed him back, kissed him as I had dreamed of being kissed, but had never quite believed I might be. — Cameron Dokey

Don't throw away love. — Cameron Dokey

Our eyes see different things, I thought. They always have. Even when we're looking in the same direction, standing side by side. — Cameron Dokey

I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble. — Cameron Dokey

The big boss wants to take us both out for dinner tonight. Apparently he's into getting to know the families of key employees or something."
"Well, that sounds potentially boring," Elaine remarked. "Do you know where you're going?"
Completely off the top of my head, I named the swankiest restaurant that I could think of.
"You'd better dress up," Elaine warned. "I think that's one of those places where, if you show up not wearing pantyhose, they give you some."
"That is so gross," I said. — Cameron Dokey

The twinkle at the back of his eyes. — Cameron Dokey

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past. — Cameron Dokey

Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist. — Cameron Dokey

So I chose one, and Harry kept the other ... we have been living happily ever after, building the room that is our love, our home, inside our hearts from that day to this.
We build it, still, for as long as we draw breath. — Cameron Dokey

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back. — Cameron Dokey

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone. — Cameron Dokey

Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die. — Cameron Dokey

But how do you protect yourself against an enemy you cannot see? How do you combat a thing that only threatens but never really comes? And so it came to pass in those days of quiet that we ceased to fight an outside foe and began to fight ourselves. — Cameron Dokey

The fear in his eyes and in his voice telling anyone with eyes and ears of their own all they needed to know about what was in his heart. — Cameron Dokey

I love you, Papa," I said.
"And I love you," my father replied. "I have loved you every day of your life. I will love you for
every day of mine and more. My love will never diminish, no matter how many steps you take
throughout the world, no matter how many years you wander until your task is done."
"I will love you as long as I draw breath," I replied. "And the moment I stop breathing, I will find
you. Wherever you are. — Cameron Dokey

How Not to Spend Your Senior Year,
Rule #3:
No matter how dire things get,
do not panic.

It will only make a bad situation even worse. Besides, by the time you've reached the hit-the-panic-button stage, it's way too late. Nothing you do will make a difference anyhow.
This is a phenomenon known to the ancients as irony. You may be more familiar with the contemporary expression of this concept: Life sucks.
Particularly weekends. — Cameron Dokey

Spring came in a great and colorful rush. — Cameron Dokey

I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself. — Cameron Dokey

My growing was definitely a series of adventures, followed by bumps, bruises, and many scoldings. — Cameron Dokey

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time. — Cameron Dokey

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end. — Cameron Dokey

And then I was simply running, flying along the hallways of the palace on glass-slippered feet, not knowing, not caring where I was going. The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion. — Cameron Dokey

I simply did what my heart demanded. — Cameron Dokey

She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it. — Cameron Dokey

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done. — Cameron Dokey

By her desperate actions, she drove others to desperation, and so we came to be deprived of our brightest ally , our purest colors. — Cameron Dokey

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force. — Cameron Dokey

Would make me blind to the needs of my country, while you and these others, having only love for country and none for my daughter, must be considered neutral? — Cameron Dokey

Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before. — Cameron Dokey

Slim and curving sickle of the moon — Cameron Dokey

Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind. — Cameron Dokey

Don't ask me to choose between an old love and the new. That's no choice at all. — Cameron Dokey

The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night. — Cameron Dokey

red-hot fireflies — Cameron Dokey

A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough and smooth. At its core lies soft marrow of hard, white bone. A story beats with the heart of every person who has ever strained ears to listen. On the breath of the storyteller, it soars. Until its images and deeds become so real you can see them in the air, shimmering like oases on the horizon line. A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same. — Cameron Dokey

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can. — Cameron Dokey

A day like a beautiful wild animal with a glossy coat and a mouth full of teeth. — Cameron Dokey

My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love.
Slowly, I got to my feet.
Speak to me, I thought.
And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus:
Have you lost your mind? — Cameron Dokey