Cameron Dokey Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Love Is, Years, Choices

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.161, 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

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  Strong, Heart, Safe

  Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Soul, Clear, Your Soul

  Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Mother, Being Yourself, Sorry

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “The World Above”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Path, Firsts, Complicated

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

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  Men, Knights, Shining

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Feelings, Want

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Action, Goodness, Force

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

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• 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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  Life, Long, Stories

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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

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  Long, Want, Like You

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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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• 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?

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  Feet, Mind, Lips

  Cameron Dokey (2013). “Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter's Child”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Simple, Spite, Straightforward

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