Becky Dobson

“It’s all right, go ahead and cry. You have every right to be sad and mad and scared and all of those things. It’s not fair what your momma did to you.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given

“She could barely breathe. She turned her head and closed her eyes, then felt herself going somewhere else, like a dropped coin spiraling to the bottom of a lake.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given

“The idea that this was a test crossed her mind again. Maybe Mother wanted to prove once and for all that bad things happened if you didn’t follow the rules. But what Mother didn’t know was that Julia planned on following the rules. Except this time, they were going to be her own.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given

“It was horrible and inconceivable and unreal.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given