Text Messaging Quotes

“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“I told them I didn't have time for this bullshit, and if either of them wanted to ask a lady out, he could do it by text message like a normal person.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

“[Texting] discourages thoughtful discussion or any level of detail. And the addictive problems are compounded by texting's hyperimmediacy. E-mails take some time to work their way through the Internet, through switches and routers and servers, and they require that you take the step of explicitly opening them. Text messages magically appear on the screen of your phone and demand immediate attention from you. Add to that the social expectation that an unanswered text feels insulting to the sender, and you've got a recipe for addiction: You receive a text, and that activates your novelty centers. You respond and feel rewarded for having completed a task (even though that task was entirely unknown to you fifteen seconds earlier). Each of those delivers a shot of dopamine as your limbic system cries out "More! More! Give me more!”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“There was no way she'd allow him to see her do 97 percent of her normal activities. She was a monster. A monster who was flat as a board with no ass. In fact, the only thing she had going on in the curves department was an enormous cystic pimple on her chin that hurt when she touched it. Yeah, no.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“There was no way Penny would go to House and let Sam see her. That would ruin everything. Sam would take one look at her and be like, "Yikes, never mind.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Sinter: And if there’s anything you want from London let me know. I’ll send it

Andy: Really, you’d ship over Tom Hiddleston? That’s sweet”
― Molly Ringle, All the Better Part of Me

“Bluebird
Even though you have not made a cupcake locating app yet, which to me is a clear sign of disrespect for the institution of dessert

Wolf
Shit. Am I gonna wake up tonight with Cookie Monster two inches from my face holding a knife?

Bluebird
Sleep with one eye open”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Voices are stupid. They influence how people perceive words, coloring them with unclear emotions, instead of letting the words stand on their own. Text messaging is much better. It allows people to be the idea they’re expressing. If you want to express emotions, you should use emojis. It’s what they’re there for.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Hmm, if only there were a place where one could go for information... a place that had free books on every topic you could think of... (book stack emoji)

Smiling, I typed back the interwebs? just to be a shit.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“Great moments are ephemeral, like a lovely text message or viral twitter moment, but when lived, it's like looking through the eyes of humanity.”
― Val Uchendu

“Andy: ugh I’ve never felt so old and slimy.
Sinter: You’re 25. That isn’t old to a 19 year old
Andy: Old. And slimy. Slimy like a slug. Like seaweed.
Sinter: Are you done with your metaphors
Andy: I think these are similes

Though he’d been a computer science major, he’d also been, like me, an English minor. It made him remarkably hot at moments such as this.

Sinter: Right, you’re right
Andy: And no. There are many slimy things and I’m like them all. Slimy like mayo
Sinter: Gross
Andy: Exactly, I am gross
Sinter: Ha no, mayo is gross
Andy: Slimy like a dog’s tongue.
Sinter: Seriously stop.”
― Molly Ringle, All the Better Part of Me

“Me: Hypothetical question.


Mystery Date: Okay, shoot.


Me: If someone were to carry five very heavy bags of groceries from their car to their apartment. Then proceed to spend hours baking cupcakes. Does that and clicking the button to let Netflix know they haven’t gotten their life together and are still watching while eating said cupcakes, count as exercise?


Me: Asking for a friend, of course. ;)”
― Alexandria Bishop, Dating in the Dark

“No drama, we had agreed. No broken hearts. No crying in our cars. No radio silence where once we had exchanged hilarious daily text messages.”
― Molly Ringle, All the Better Part of Me

“Jesus would probably be pretty direct over text.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“There’s a difference between keeping it casual and being a downer.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“ppl are more honest in writing.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“CALLUM:You're awfully chatty today”
― Sarah Smith, Simmer Down

“What are you up to?
I tell her, a little proud that I can answer with something truthful, that I'm not just passed out in a motel room, begging for sleep to save me from my thoughts. You?


The same thing I do every night, Carlos.


Trying to take over the world? I write, sure she's making a Pinky and the Brain reference, this old cartoon that Felix got me into.”
― Adi Alsaid, North of Happy

“…his spontaneous verbal compliment had been worth a thousand text messages.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed