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Cameron Dokey is an American author. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her three cats and her husband.

Cameron was born in the Central Valley of California. Her father was a teacher of Philosophy, Creative Writing, and Western Literature, and perhaps for this reason, Cameron grew up reading classical literature and mythology. Both Cameron's parents are authors. Her mother's work is less well-known than that of her father. Cameron's grandmother, Mabel, was a singer on the radio in the early decades of the 20th Century.Cameron studied Archaeology at Sonoma State University just prior to extending her high school career as an actress by acting for several years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in Ashland, Oregon. Cameron then moved to Seattle, where she continued acting at several locations including the Seattle Rep. It was in Seattle that Cameron met her husband, Jim Verdery.

After several years of acting and working in different capacities, Cameron has settled into writing. Wikipedia  

✵ 1956
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Famous Cameron Dokey Quotes

“A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.”

Cameron Dokey

Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

“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

Variant: That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

“Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.”

Cameron Dokey

“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

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

“All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.”

Cameron Dokey

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

“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

Source: Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute

Cameron Dokey Quotes about love

“Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”

Cameron Dokey

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

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

Cameron Dokey

“I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.”

Cameron Dokey

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

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

Cameron Dokey

Source: Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty

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

Cameron Dokey

Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

“Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.”

Cameron Dokey

Source: Winter's Child: A Retelling of The Snow Queen

Cameron Dokey Quotes

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

Cameron Dokey

Source: 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

Source: Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Cameron Dokey

“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

Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights

“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

Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

“I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.”

Cameron Dokey

Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights

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