Joanna Coles Quotes

If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.

Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me.

I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it.

The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

'Sticky' is about reaching a point in a relationship where you both realize you guys shouldn't be dating, but you're doing it anyway just because you like to have that sense of just being able to be honest with the person and comfortable with the person. You kind of ignore all of the signs and red flags because you really want to like the person.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we 'loved each other.' It was a young love, not a forever love.

Even sometimes when I don't have a heartbreak I purposely get my heart broken so that I can make that song!

When I get the strength to leave, you always tell me that you need me. And I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love you. So I stop and think that maybe you could learn to appreciate me, and it all remains the same that you ain't never gonna change.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.

The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.