Quotes from Cameron Dokey

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.

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.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. And what is known can be outmaneuvered, outguessed. Lifted up, or hunted down.

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.

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.

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

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?

A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong.

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.

September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.

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.

The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.

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

No matter who you are, you are answerable to yourself.

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.

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.

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

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.

i had to cease to mourn what could never be & learn to make the most of what was possible. & i would begin by trying to mend the hurts of the past

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

Spring works wonders everywhere.

Stories are tricky things, aren't they?

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?

Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.