“If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will fin...” — Kristen Crockett Quote

“If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit.”

“Whether our caretaker was our mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandparent, foster parent, or sibling, our blueprint of what a relationship is supposed to look like is drafted by what we observed from our caretaker’s relationship. If our caretaker took their significant other back multiple times, made excuses for their actions, helped them battle demons, turned a blind eye to their infidelity, or moved from one relationship to the next, that is what we know. Their behavior becomes our very own model of what a relationship is supposed to look like and determines what we will expect from our own partners.”

“If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.”

“If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.”

“Their experiences with their parents have taught them that relationships mean feeling abandoned and burdened at the same time. To these people, relationships feel like traps.”

“Killing is not something you do privately, in the space of your own head. It happens here.” She opened her arms, as though to embrace the whole world. “In the relationship between bodies…”

“Love can make people want to grip on to each other so tight that they have to pull apart before they hurt each other anymore”

“Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.”

“And, crossing into Louisiana:”

“Betrayal breaks more than promises — it breaks safety. Healing restores safety first.”