Top 100 Cameron Dokey Quotes
#1. Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.
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#2. The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.
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#3. For true love comes when it will, not when it is called.
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#4. I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.
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#5. A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.
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#7. Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Long years, and so many of them that, one by one, their hopes for a child began to pack their bags and depart.
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#10. No matter who you are, you are answerable to yourself.
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#11. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. Connecting us, turning the three of us into one.
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#19. My growing was definitely a series of adventures, followed by bumps, bruises, and many scoldings.
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#20. 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.
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#21. To be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
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#22. 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?
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#23. 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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#24. Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at it's core.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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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#31. 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.
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#32. 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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#33. 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.
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#34. Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now.
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#35. I felt something cold skitter down the back of my legs.
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#36. She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it.
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#37. Our eyes see different things, I thought. They always have. Even when we're looking in the same direction, standing side by side.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Acting with discipline requires you to know your true nature and, having come to know it, to bring it under control.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once.
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#42. 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?
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#43. 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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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#49. Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues.
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#50. September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.
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#51. Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
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#52. Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.
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#53. 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.
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#54. In spite of myself, I gave a snort. Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. Don't ask me to choose between an old love and the new. That's no choice at all.
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#61. Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.
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#62. 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.
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#64. Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Personally I wasn't one but surprised to walk into that theater and see Jo O'Connor's ghost. I knew as soon as I put my hand on the door handle that something funny was going on. I got all sort of lightheaded."
Probably the blood trying to find its way through the labyrinth of your brain.
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#67. A strange ripple...like an unexpected changing of the tide.
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#68. Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.
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#69. Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion
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#70. By her desperate actions, she drove others to desperation, and so we came to be deprived of our brightest ally , our purest colors.
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#71. But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.
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#72. None of us can accept all what we may be offered in this life. Sometimes we must say no, even to love.
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#73. 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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#75. True love comes when it will, not when it's called.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. I kissed him back, kissed him as I had dreamed of being kissed, but had never quite believed I might be.
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#80. 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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#81. 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.
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#82. 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?
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#83. I am not a fool just because the whole world thinks I look like one.
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#84. I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble.
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#85. Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
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#86. 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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#87. 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?
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#89. 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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#90. The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night.
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#91. But this child is not worth unraveling the world for. No one is.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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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#96. A day like a beautiful wild animal with a glossy coat and a mouth full of teeth.
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#98. 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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#99. There can be no better place to begin your exploration of the world than by stepping our your own back door.
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#100. 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.
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