Explore Quotes by Cameron Dokey

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

Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

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

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

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.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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