{"author":"Anne Spollen","author_id":"Anne+Spollen","total_quotes":5,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["bones","grief","lightness"],"id":303,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["biography","emotions","landscape","memory","rooms"],"id":55006,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"},{"text":"I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["ocean","silence"],"id":79798,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["silence","water"],"id":109054,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["ocean","scent","sky"],"id":139060,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}