"Modern Romance" Quotes
Examining the complexities of modern dating and relationships, Aziz Ansari offers a humorous and insightful analysis of love in the digital age.
nonfiction | 279 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
Today, if you own a smartphone, you’re carrying a 24/7 singles bar in your pocket.
Texting is great; it’s really convenient. But it’s also a curse.
If you are in a big city or on an online-dating site, you are now comparing your potential partners not just to other potential partners but rather to an idealized person to whom no one could measure up.
The texts were like you just wanted to meet up to say you did, and then you’d get into bed right away. Sex didn’t mean anything to you.
The modern bozo knows the real power of the text is that it’s fun and flirty and, hey, maybe it can get him a date!
The problem is, the more we ghost and ignore and avoid things, the more we become attached to and defined by those things.
The whole culture of finding true love is a scam.
First, they text you. Then, you text them. Then, you wait. Then, you wait some more until you’re just not sure what the heck is going on.
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who have experienced a text message–induced emotional breakdown and those who have not.
The whole world is now a giant bar and you’re a giant jerk, and everyone else is a giant jerk.
