Quotes by Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.”

“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this...”

“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only af...”

“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.”

“I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar to the scent of seawater that sprayed into my face when I first dove into the ocean. That initial...”