Joanna Coles

“If you keep dating and keep out there, you keep a higher level of hope, and also, your skills at doing it improve because you're doing it more often, and you are bringing less anxiety to the table.”

“You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.”

“What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.”

“Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.”

“When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.”