Beauty Sleep Quotes

“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, Beauty Sleep

“Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“A cornered animal is almost as dangerous as a wounded one.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“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, Beauty Sleep

“I am not a fool just because the whole world thinks I look like one.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Stories are tricky things, aren't they?”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“The power of her magic had snatched me from death. But it was the power of my own love which would give me the life I wanted.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Would make me blind to the needs of my country, while you and these others, having only love for country and none for my daughter, must be considered neutral?”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“And the thing about understanding yourself, knowing your true colors, is that you have to be true to them. For if you don't, they change, and so do you.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“In that moment, I both lost and gained myself.
I ceased to be Aurore and yet became her, too. For, with my heart joined with Oswald's, I became more of what I was. All the empty spaces within me filled to the brim, yet never overflowing. For true love always knows its own measure. And it is the measure of two hearts, combined.
Two hearts who need no other magic than what they hold inside them, for they have learned to beat as one.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Whatever my destiny is, it's mine and nobody else's.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Even a fool could become dangerous when armed with a secret.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“May you keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“For true love comes when it will, not when it is called.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“But this child is not worth unraveling the world for. No one is.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“My power casts down your power, if only for a moment. Your pain replaces mine.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“For who could deny, literally in the face of so much wonder, that love was the greatest magic of them all?”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“My desire to return home, if it was still home, on my own two feet. The same way I had left it behind.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“An old woman, still beautiful, but bent, softened with time.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“A day like a beautiful wild animal with a glossy coat and a mouth full of teeth.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“It's hard to be on your high horse when you are falling on your face.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“Just because I'm pointing out the flaws in your logic is no reason to start accusing me of things. There is no shame in being afraid.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“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.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep

“I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble.”
― Cameron Dokey, Beauty Sleep