Becca

“God will take a life, God will give a life, and God will make a life unrecognizable. God won’t warn you what’s coming next.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Strength, I had learned, was like this littered forest floor, built of small triumphs and infinite blunders, sunny hours followed by sudden storms that tore it all down. We are one and all alike if for no other reason than the excruciating and beautiful way we grow piece by unpredictable piece, falling, pushing from the debris, rising again, and hoping for the best.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“The landscapes of our youths create us, and we carry them within us, storied by all they gave and stole, in who we become.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Just as a single rainstorm can erode the banks and change the course of a river, so can a single circumstance of a girl’s life erase who she was before.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River