Quote by Lynn Sholes

“Somebody dialed the wrong number trying to reach me, but I didn’t pick up because I didn’t recognize the number, or the legitimacy of…

— Jarod Kintz

“She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“the phone, as if she believed she had to raise her voice”

— Adam Mitzner

“The phone was ringing as she entered the house through the kitchen door. She jogged into the living room to answer it, only to…

— Anonymous

“To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it…

— Kelley York

“She had no numbers stored on her phone. In her line of work, her phone could be liberated from her at any time. The…

— Brett Arquette

“You never saw people anymore, everything was self-service, everybody behind glass windows. And you could not get a real person on the phone. Everywhere…

— Fannie Flagg

“I was accustomed to women saying “yes” to me within seconds, and I’d never had to work this hard just to get someone’s phone…

— Whitney G

“Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number to make…

— Candace Bushnell

“I looked away quickly, trying not to read anything into that one simple word, and held up my hand. “Let me have your phone.”

— Kate SeRine

“This was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.”

— Douglas Adams

“In his pocket, the mobile phone beeped and wriggled. They'd said on the radio that the entirety of human knowledge was available on these…

— Tom Rachman