“Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.”
“And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.”
“If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.”
“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.”
“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.”
“we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.”