Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables.”

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452. “You have a gift for making friends who are much cooler than you are.”

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453. “All I’d eaten that morning was a raw strawberry Pop-Tart I’d wolfed down in my car on the way to school – and.”

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454. “Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.”

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455. “Where’d you get the coconuts?”

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456. “OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.”

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457. “On the seven worlds where the Siren once played a role For each fragment my heir must pay a toll To once again make the Siren whole.”

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458. “Over a forty-two-year period.”

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459. “Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I’d managed to wreck both of my closest friendships.”

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460. “My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot.”

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461. “It looks just like Rivendell,” Aech said, taking the words right out of my mouth.”

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462. “Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.”

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463. “No,” Daito said. “We’re not. You’re all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.”

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464. “Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar’s chest and muttered a few arcane words.”

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465. “Once she and I started touching each other, we both found it difficult to stop.”

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466. “It was a partnership destined to alter the course of human history.”

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467. “Oh, and Wolverine had that idiotic Muramasa Blade made with part of his soul. Which, while incredibly lame, was still a far cooler magical weapon than Sting!”

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468. “Hello!” I shouted at the Six-Fingered Man one final time. “My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father. Prepare to die!”

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469. “He wasn’t dead!”

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470. “When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.”

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471. “Ray seemed about to say something more when a boom shook the entire shuttle. I felt a rush of panic, thinking we’d just come under attack. Then I realized we’d just broken the sound barrier.”

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472. “Finally, after it felt like we’d been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road.”

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473. “NASA dubbed this spacecraft the Envoy I, and it reached Europa on the 9th of July, 1976 – the day humanity made its first direct contact with an alien intelligence.”

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474. “Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton.”

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475. “His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity.”

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476. “Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.”

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477. “I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.”

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478. “Leeroy Jenkins!”

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479. “Busted,” I said, raising my hands in a gesture of guilt. “That’s what you get.”

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480. “Not only was this the first time a girl had ever given me her card, it was also, by far, the coolest contact card I had ever seen. “This is, by far, the coolest contact card I have ever seen,” I said. “Thank you!” I.”

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481. “I actually switched to a third-person view for a few seconds, just to admire how cool my avatar looked wearing it.”

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482. “I spotted shots from various films in the Trek and Wars franchises, mixed with shots from the various versions of War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, V, and even – God help us – Battlefield Earth.”

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483. “My accusation seemed to detonate on his face like a bomb. His features began to contort, but I turned my back on him so I wouldn’t have to see the rest of his reaction. I walked out of there as fast as I could without looking.”

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484. “And, of course, Kevin Smith.”

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485. “Not trusting my instincts any further, I loaded up a piece of high-end avatar dance software called Travoltra, which I’d downloaded and tested earlier that evening. The program took control of Parzival’s movements, synching them up with the music, and all four of my limbs were transformed into undulating cosine waves. Just like that, I became a dancing fool. Art3mis.”

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486. “She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month.”

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487. “We played vintage board games, watched movies, and listened to music. We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. I’d never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before.”

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488. “Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.”

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489. “These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols.”

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490. “Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l’agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d’illusions.”

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491. “Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place in the same universe? You ever consider that?” I.”

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492. “Pretend they’re Gungans,” Cruz suggested. “And that we get to nuke Jar Jar.”

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493. “Once we reached the edge of the Be-Free Forest, we entered Holden’s Field – a large, flat, open field of rye, perched precariously on the edge of the Cliffs of Salinger, a place where I had completed several different book-report quests at several different grade levels. I had also played countless games of tag in this field, with other kids from around the world. Kids I had never met and would never meet in the real world, with usernames that they had probably changed long ago.”

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494. “Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death.”

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495. “As soon as they saw Aech’s score increase, they would have used Fyndoro’s Tablet of Finding and learned that he was currently on Frobozz.”

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