Dolores Quotes

“But rock bottom is funny like that. You think you’ve reached it, and then you find out—there’s always farther to fall.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“But I never let it make me bitter. I never let it harden me. When someone showed me who I didn’t want to be, I thought, Thank you. Thank you for showing me what I’m not.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“It’s something a lot of women know. You have a baby, and everything changes. Your body doesn’t feel like yours. Your emotions are raw. You’re still bleeding and nursing and healing while the world expects you to go back to who you were. But you don’t go back. That woman is gone. You become someone new. And the man who promised to stand beside you doesn’t know how to handle it, so he leaves the only way he knows how. He finds something that feels easier.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“I let my insecurities lead, and they led me straight in to losing myself.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“Home didn’t feel like a place; it felt like him.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“The room was quiet. It was just me and her…the weight of her tiny body against my skin, the steady rhythm of her breath. I stared, unable to look away. This is my daughter. This is a manifestation of something divine. I felt it then, an unshakable clarity: I could conquer anything. There was no fear, no doubt. Just her. Just us. And that was enough.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“We can’t be created nor destroyed. We just evolve. We’re infinite.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“Mother Mary—it honors her suffering and strength. Universally, it symbolizes a woman who has endured pain with grace and carried burdens with quiet courage.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“To be pure, you have to go through purification. But in order to reach purification, you have to experience life’s pain and sorrow.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“once you’ve gone through pain and purification, peace is the result.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“This is hapé,” he said. “It’s an indigenous practice. It will ground you. It will bring you back.”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE

“A man who is grounded and self-aware would never cheat,”
― Catherine Paiz, Dolores: My Journey Home (Finding Myself Beyond The ACE Family)—PART ONE