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1 " 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 for one year, this place made entirely of grief. "
― Anne Spollen , The Shape of Water
2 " 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. "
3 " 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 after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light. "
4 " I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed. "
5 " 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 approached the water on a dive, that warned me that a more powerful scent would soon enter my nose. It was the scent I dreamed in. And it was the scent of that spring sky as I stood in my yard. "
6 " I discovered windows one afternoon and after that, nothing was ever the same. "
7 " You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life.... These people no longer made progress. "
8 " The room had the impersonal, disconnected feel of a waiting room on Jupiter. "
9 " Lorsque s'installe le silence suffisamment longtemps, on découvre qu'il se déplace. Il nous glisse dessus sans forme particulière, mais exerce un certain poids, exactement comme l'eau. "
