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?

Cameron Dokey

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

Cameron Dokey

princess lovely dawn

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.

Cameron Dokey

moving-on hurt past

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

Cameron Dokey

wish heart may

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.

Cameron Dokey

choices love-is years

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.

Cameron Dokey

kings doe men

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.

Cameron Dokey

draws once-upon-a-time believe

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Cameron Dokey

blindness worst kind

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.

Cameron Dokey

snakes wind moving

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.

Cameron Dokey

light darkness overcoming

Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

Cameron Dokey

strong safe heart

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

Cameron Dokey

your-soul clear soul

I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

Cameron Dokey

being-yourself mother sorry

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

Cameron Dokey

complicated path firsts

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

Cameron Dokey

knights shining men

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.

Cameron Dokey

hurt want feelings

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Cameron Dokey

force goodness action

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.

Cameron Dokey

stories life long

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.

Cameron Dokey

eye dream sleep

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

Cameron Dokey

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?

Cameron Dokey

like-you want long