Quotes from Cameron Dokey

But I am not the true thief, father. You have robbed yourself. You have no peace because you cling to sorrow and anger. You have no peace because you do not mourn.

I will make many mistakes, have many regrets, take many risks, but I will not do what my father did. I will not turn my back on love.

Never regret love.

By her desperate actions, she drove others to desperation, and so we came to be deprived of our brightest ally , our purest colors.

All of us begin somewhere.

If what we are called is not important, why bother with a name at all?

For surely, if this was anything, it was the power of true love. The power to bring life and hope where none had been before.

You want me to back off, fine. Prove to me you're not Jo O'Connor and I'll do whatever you say. I'll flap my arms and fly to the moon." "That won't be necessary," I said. "The other side of the room will be just fine." He gave a breathy laugh, the air of it moving across my face, and eased back.

You'll like Drama," Alex promised a couple of hours later. We were walking across a wide swath of green lawn that separated the school's Little Theater from the main classroom building. "Mr. Barnes, the teacher, is great. He makes the whole thing really interesting and fun. Even the performing part isn't too humiliating." "Gee, that's a relief.

Hey, Calloway." Reluctantly I turned back. "What?" "Save me a dance, will you?" I smiled sweetly. "Only if you wear one of those cute little plaid cummerbunds.

The sheer surprise, unbridled wonder,and exquisite joy of unexpected love. Love at first sight.

The sun came over the horizon with an exuberant leap.

True love never dies.

Though he did not gather me in with his arms, he did so with a look in his eyes.

The boy whose first beginning nobody knew, and the girl who came into the world before her time.

I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble.

Connecting us, turning the three of us into one.

She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it.

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.

I kissed him back, kissed him as I had dreamed of being kissed, but had never quite believed I might be.

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now.

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.

red-hot fireflies

A strange ripple...like an unexpected changing of the tide.