Anne Spollen, Written

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

― The Shape of Water

"The room had the impersonal, disconnected feel of a waiting room on Jupiter."
― The Shape of Water

"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 mean? - I mean, he has two moods, and the presence of something that was created to go unnoticed throughout life. Like a light switch: on, off, there when you need it, forgettable when you don't."
― Light Beneath Ferns

"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."

― The Shape of Water

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Born in Staten Island, Anne Spollen spent many years living in the Hudson Valley. Now she divides her time between Staten Island, the Jersey shore, and New Paltz, New York.

And she writes.

The story of a young girl who transcends insurmountable grief

A gentle paranormal story about an impossible first love"I have this strange sense that my silence is preparing me for something I can't name . . ."

Anne Spollen, Written

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