“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 place I had inhabited… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“The room had the impersonal, disconnected feel of a waiting room on Jupiter.” — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“I discovered windows one afternoon and after that, nothing was ever the same.” — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“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 scent was much more subtle than the ocean's heavy, fishy aroma; it was a whiff of salt and mint, just as I… — Anne Spollen Copy Share
“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
“Ma, Kyle has the personality of a light switch. I don't have a crush on him. -Now, what exactly is that sentence supposed to… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
