Quotes from Cameron Dokey

A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.

The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night.

There can be no better place to begin your exploration of the world than by stepping our your own back door.

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.

The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.

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.

A single voice and yet a chorus.

Don't ask me to choose between an old love and the new. That's no choice at all.

How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, Rule #3: No matter how dire things get, do not panic. It will only make a bad situation even worse. Besides, by the time you've reached the hit-the-panic-button stage, it's way too late. Nothing you do will make a difference anyhow. This is a phenomenon known to the ancients as irony. You may be more familiar with the contemporary expression of this concept: Life sucks. Particularly weekends.

If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.

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.

The twinkle at the back of his eyes.

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.

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.

Long years, and so many of them that, one by one, their hopes for a child began to pack their bags and depart.

Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once.

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.

I simply did what my heart demanded.

Spring came in a great and colorful rush.

I felt something cold skitter down the back of my legs.

Don't throw away love.

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.

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.