Cameron Dokey Quotes

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

Love Is, Years, Choices

Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

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Kind, Blindness, Worst

Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

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Princess, Lovely, Dawn

Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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

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Heart, Wish, May

Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Moving On, Hurt, Past

Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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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?

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Dream, Thinking, Might

Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Kings, Men, Doe

Cameron Dokey (2008). “The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights"”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Believe, Once Upon A Time, Draws

Cameron Dokey (2013). “Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter's Child”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Light, Darkness, Overcoming

Cameron Dokey (2011). “Sunlight and Shadow”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Moving, Wind, Snakes

Cameron Dokey (2008). “The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights"”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

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Miracle, Absence

Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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

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Sunrise, Ends

Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Garden, Zucchini, Land

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I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

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Daughter, Water, Trying

Cameron Dokey (2008). “The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights"”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Father, Thinking, Arrows

Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.

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Grief, Two, Different Experiences

Cameron Dokey (2011). “Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. 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.

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Long, Stories, Done

Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Would Be, World, Faces

Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Dark, Thinking, Your Side

Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Mind, May, Change For The Better

Cameron Dokey (2011). “Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

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Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

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Faults, Kind, Sickness

Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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

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Uplifting, Taken, Gone

Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Love You, Color, Would Be

Cameron Dokey, Mahlon F. Craft (2008). “Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute"”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Needs, Accepted, Thrive

Cameron Dokey (2009). “Winter's Child”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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