Quotations (23)

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“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.” ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.” ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
“Going outside is highly overrated.” ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
“As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.” - James Halliday (364)
“‘You mentioned that once on your blog. Two years ago.’ I almost cited the date of the actual blog entry before I realized it would make me sound even more like a cyber-stalking super-creep.”
"This ‘girl,’ whom I’d been cyber-crushing on for the past three years, might very well be an obese, hairy-knuckled guy named Chuck."
"Once I’d done my homework on Sorrento, I felt like I was ready to sit down with the devil."
"If I couldn't reach it on my own, I didn't deserve it at all."
"When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts."
"... can we adjourn the Mutual Admiration Society ...?
"Dual zones permitted the use of both magic and technology, and null zones didn’t allow either. There were pacifist zones where no player-versus-player combat was allowed, and player-versus-player zones where it was every avatar for…
Parzival: "The female of the species has always found me repellent." Art3mis: "I don't find you repellent."
"I’d heard all the clichéd warnings about the perils of falling for someone you only knew online, but I ignored them. I decided that whoever Art3mis really was, I was in love with her. I could feel it, deep in the soft, chewy caramel…
"She was wearing evening attire: a gunmetal blue dress that looked like it was — spray-painted on."
Z [Parzival]: "'Are you breaking up with me?'" Art3mis: "'No, Z,' she said firmly.... 'We've never even met!'"
"... once people got a taste of it, there was no going back."
"No matter where you go, there you are."
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“You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to sh*t and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software.”
No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.”
Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
“I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going…
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”