“I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 244 of 309
“I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.”
“I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.”
“'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.”
“People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.”
“When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.”
“You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.”
“Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.”
“Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.”
“Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go”
“Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.”
“When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.”
“Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.”
“In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.”
“(Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.”
“I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.”
“I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.”
“I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.”
“When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.”
“Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go.”