Cameron Dokey · 193 pages
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“Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“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, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“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.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“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.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“No matter who you are, you are answerable to yourself.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Nothing is truly impossible. It's all a matter of looking at things in just the right way.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“There are two things in the world you must never give up on...And those two things are yourself and love.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“To truly love takes seeing truly.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“The most powerful wish there is, one that is a birth and death wish, all at the same time.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“It live on in all who live and remember, teaching them how to discover such a love for themselves.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time?”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“slim and curving sickle of the moon”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Not all love is joyful, particularly if it seems hopeless.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“The kind of cold that comes when the heart gives up on itself and abandons hope, a cold no fire on on earth could ever warm.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Constanze d'Este loved you and all you might create together. You thought you loved her, but you loved yourself more.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“But it is not my mother's heart that is buried there. Instead, I think that it is yours.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“My father might never claim me, but here, in this moment, I had finally claimed my mother for my own.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“You did not lose! You gave it away of your own free will. You gave me away. You gave away love.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“But the scent of my father's hate could not be washed entirely away. It clung to my skin, a faint rotten spell.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“And so the child of cinders went to the ball.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Your father threw away the greatest gift your mother could bestow- the gift of what their love created.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Every kind of power has its own boundaries, Etienne. That is you know its strength and its form.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“If we treat him like an enemy, that's all he'll ever be.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Their glowed as brightly as any candle in the room.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“He had wasted the span of my entire life.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
“Grief and sorrow are one and the same. But until you feel regret for what is now forever out of reach, you do not truly mourn.”
― Cameron Dokey, quote from Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"
Cameron Dokey
Born place: in Central Valley of California, The United States
Born date January 1, 1956
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