“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”
“I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.”
“Everything in life is a metaphor.”
“Life's metaphors are God's instructions.”
“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. ”
“Mandy's friends gathered around her as she told the story-the true and somewhat heartbreaking story of her first time. It hadn't been perfect, but she now knew that imperfection was okay-part of life, even. And for the first time in her life, Mandy Walters was realizing that she could live with imperfection.”