Dave 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.”

“Standing alone in that damp, dark garage, I knew, for the first time, that I could survive.”

“I knew no one could help me. Not my teachers, my so-called brothers or even Father. I was on my own, and every night I prayed to God that I could be strong both in body and soul. In the darkness of the garage, I laid on the wooden cot and shivered until I fell into a restless sleep.”

“As I sat alone in the garage, or read to myself in the near darkness of my parents’ bedroom, I came to realize that I would live like this for the remainder of my life. No just God would leave me like this. I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival.”

“I willed the wound to heal. Somehow I knew it would. I felt proud of myself. I imagined myself like a character in a comic book, who overcame great odds and survived. Soon my head slumped forward and I fell asleep. In my dream, I flew through the air in vivid colors. I wore a cape of red … I was Superman.”

“You are a nobody! An It!”