Catherine Roerva Pelzer Quotes

“I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”

“Then she would order me to say over and over again, ‘I’m a bad boy! I’m a bad boy! I’m a bad boy!‘”

“The longer Father argued his case, the angrier she became. I could tell he had lost, and that I was becoming more and more isolated.”

“From above, I felt someone hug my shoulders, I thought it was my father. I turned and became flushed with pride to find Mom holding me tightly. I could feel her heart beat. I never felt as safe and as warm as that moment in time, at the Russian River.”

“You are a nobody! An It!”