"The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy."
"Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical."
"A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments."
"To understand desire, one needs language and flesh."
"Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told."
"It's too late to leave the future to the futurists."
"I miss those days even though I wasn't alive."
"The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil."
"One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance."
"We expect more from technology and less from each other."
"Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves."
"Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds."
"Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler."
"Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real."
"The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become."
"We go from curiosity to a search for communion."
"Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice."
"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."
"She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber."
"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it."
"Children make theories when they are confused or anxious."
"When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves."
"Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?"
"Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself."
"Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision."