“Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.”
“If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.”
“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)”
“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.”
“Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.”
“Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty in things that often go unnoticed. The lens allowed me to see the beauty from behind the safe remove of a steel-and-leather-covered folding camera.”