Texting Quotes

“I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can’t ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn’t expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won’t kiss you on your neck again.

So typical of him. No! You can’t ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance.

I’m trying, he wrote back. But you won’t keep your distance from me.

I didn’t dignify that with a response.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger.

Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?”

“No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.”

“Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work?”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Lucas: I wanted to talk to you after class, but you disappeared.

Me: I have another class right after. One of those profs who stops talking, stares at you and waits until you get to your seat if you're late.

Lucas: I would probably just walk to my seat even slower. ;)”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

“The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.”
― Cat Patrick, Forgotten

“I texted back: Did you make it home?
A few minutes passed while I stared at my phone. Yeah. Fam showering me with affection. U cld learn frm them.
I think you get enough attention.
I'm needy.
Boy, don't I know that. ”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You

“I miss you.
Sorry. Was that too much?
I know it’s only been a few days.
Maybe this is why people don’t want to go out with me.
Not that you’re really going out with me anyway.
I hope I didn’t sound presumptuous.
I’m probably sounding really weird now.
I’m assuming you’re not texting back because you’re still asleep. Not because you think I’m disgustingly clingy.
If you’re awake and think I’m disgustingly clingy, could you at least tell me.
Right. You’re probably asleep.
And now you’re going to wake up and read all this and I’m going to die of embarrassment.
Sorry.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x

2. I had three. Hope that's OK. Dad x

3. I'm just going to have one more. Dad x

4. Harriet, your Dad's made himself sick on an entire multipack of Mars Bars again. Please don't leave sweets where we can find them. A x”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“ What r u doing now?
I'm beating my dad at poker.
Picturing him with his family, I smiled.
Getting ready for bed.
Wish I was there.
My eyes widened. What the what?
Wait r u naked?
No!!! I sent back. Perv.
Damn, At least I have my imagination.
That's all you will ever have.
We'll c.
No you won't. ”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You

“I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Is this just a polite way of saying you need time to recover from my flat?

I won't lie. It was fairly terrible. But there were some compensations.

Like what?

You.

I stared at the word for a really long time. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation?”
― Azadeh Aalai

“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.”
― Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

“You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away you feel happy? You feel happy, the body, it creates the chemical dopamine, the dopamine, it goes through your blood and you become addicted to that dopamine rush, and you associate that dopamine rush with the happy feeling of receiving the text, and that's why you got people sending 3,000 fucking text messages a day, right, we're not even paying attention to what we're saying anymore it's just like a, like a morphine drip, right, it's like a dopamine drip! HAPPY BUTTONS! HAPPY BUTTONS! HAPPY BUTTONS! TIME TO PLAY WITH THE HAPPY BUTTONS!”
― Tom Green

“...what do you want to know?
Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D

I’m 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I’ve had one long-term serious relationship...”
― Arden Aoide, Club Dishabille

“WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.”
― Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After

“Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved.”
― Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy

“For most of the population these days, the only thing that ever dances is a pair of thumbs texting. No wonder people are aging so fast on the Ship of Fools sailing Titanic-like through today into no tomorrow.

As people’s souls shrink through lack of movement, their connective tissue hardens and their bones turn brittle. This isn’t metaphoric. This is the mind-body-spirit connection on full display, for anyone who cares to contemplate its cause and effects, in real time.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If someone is interested, they'll find time - if not, they'll find excuse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“I am almost certain that he has texted me at the same time each morning just to get me up for work. And his plan has succeeded. My body clock now wakes me up at 8:45 a.m. and instead of cursing at the world, the first thing I do is smile.”
― Megan Clawson, Falling Hard for the Royal Guard

“I just wanted to say how much i loved last night… How much I liked last night… Just wanted to say last night was really fun… Hi. we made out last night and then I disappeared and then you disappeared and now I’m going home and I know you don’t want to be official girlfriends or anything, obviously, LOL, but I just want you to know I really liked it. More than liked it. Unless you disagree, in which case I liked it just enough that you should feel good about your kissing abilities, but not enough that you should feel any pressure, okay? And maybe you can respond with an emoji, or something, just to give me a clue where you stand.”
― Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

“We used to stay up all night talking on the phone. Tonight, I don't even know how to text you 'hey'.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“I watched the little ellipsis dance. Three gray dots, doing the worm at the bottom of my iPhone screen, carrying on their round backs an entire world of either happiness or despair.”
― Erin Zelinka, On Love and Travel: A Memoir

“Dag
- Jag vägrar bestämma. Ta över kontrollen av situationen, låt inte killen bestämma. Krossa patriarkatet!

Jag
- Du inser att genom att tvinga mig bestämma förstärker du patriarkatet som du så gärna vill att jag ska krossa?”
― Callum Bloodworth, Berätta tre saker

“This wrld is dezined to either make u feel really GUILTY or to NOT CARE at all.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Isobel: Got water on my phone.

Spade: You better not be back in the fucking lake.

Isobel: The shower.

Spade: Alone?

Isobel: …

Spade: What?

Isobel: Why would you ask that?

Spade: To gather information.

Isobel: Why?

Spade: …

Isobel: What?”
― Jane Washington, Plier

“Why did I send that winky face?!” he chided himself, desperate to take it back. But he couldn’t. Text messages: once sent, always sent.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

“I didn’t need to text him back. I didn’t want to text him back.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“But when I opened my phone, there was a message from him. The air was sucked from the sky. There he was, the letters of his name. Like seeing a teacher outside of school.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“Jeanie's finger hovered over the kissy winky emoji. Nope. Too far. She would quit while she was ahead.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Please, just meet me somewhere. Hear me out. I never meant to hurt you.
Just as fast, she wrote, Sounds like you’re really torn up about the consequences of your own actions, Tyler. Why don’t you repeat your senior year of high school, write an essay about your coming-of-age experience, and magically get into Brown?
Suddenly, my fists were hot, my throat was dry, and my pulse was pummeling. My fingers flew across the keys so quickly I did not know what they’d decided to say until I’d already sent the message.

You know what, Katie? It’s genre fiction, not a mission to Mars. Selma does not have time to find anyone else. I’ll write the boy. You write the girl. We’ve practically done this twice already anyway, and I cannot go back to her and have this conversation again. I’m going to end up blacklisted, and so are you. So, in the interest of making rent, just deal with it. It’s three months.

For a minute, bubbles. For a minute, dots. And then, she sent this:

Fine.

I stared at it, then closed my eyes. Softness. Quiet. Here it was: a chance, a window. But as soon as my heart rate had begun to calm, another ding.

I don’t want to see you, though.

I grimaced and then wrote, I realize there’s not much reading between the lines in romance novels, Katie, but rest assured: I know how to interpret subtext.”
― Lauren Okie, Tropesick