Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I don’t care if Spielberg directed.”

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452. “Knavery?” Art3mis said after she’d finished reading it. “Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?”

— Ernest Cline

453. “Don’t say that!” I was starting to cry and didn’t bother hiding it from her. “Is it because I told you I’ve never had a real girlfriend? And that I’m a virgin? Because-.”

— Ernest Cline

454. “According to him, the firmware on our OIVs has not been altered in any way – it just isn’t functioning properly now, due to the changes in Anorak’s infirmware.”

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455. “The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of “priests,” who are described in Part II of the song, titled “The Temples of Syrinx.” Its lyrics told me exactly where the Crystal Key was hidden: We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx All the gifts of life are held within our walls. There was a planet in Sector Twenty-one named Syrinx. That was where I was headed now.”

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456. “Og gave the Sega Ninja cabinet an awkward pat, as if it were an unfamiliar Labrador. Then he shoved both his hands into his pockets and grinned at me like a lovestruck idiot. He looked as if his pupils might change into cartoon hearts at any second.”

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457. “Halliday’s favorite sci-fi novels, TV shows, and movies.”

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458. “It was Art3mis. She wore a suit of scaled gunmetal-blue armor that looked more sci-fi than fantasy. Twin blaster pistols were slung low on her hips in quickdraw holsters, and there was a long, curved elvish sword in a scabbard across her back. She wore fingerless Road Warrior–style racing gloves and a pair of classic Ray-Ban shades. Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word: hot.”

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459. “My father’s face contorted in pain, and that was when I turned and walked away, well out of earshot, to let them talk in private – and to avoid a crying jag of my own.”

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460. “Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game’s two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It’s just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.”

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461. “Something Daito had left to me in his will.”

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462. “And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.”

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463. “That was the reason a lot of our own users had started to refer to GSS as the “New Sixers” and me, Aech, Shoto, and Samantha as the “Four Nerds of the Apocalypse.”

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

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

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468. “Where’d you get the coconuts?”

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469. “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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470. “Over a forty-two-year period.”

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

— Ernest Cline

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

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

— Ernest Cline

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

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475. “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.”

— Ernest Cline

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

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

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

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479. “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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480. “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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481. “He wasn’t dead!”

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

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483. “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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484. “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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485. “Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton.”

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

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487. “Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.”

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488. “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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489. “Leeroy Jenkins!”

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

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491. “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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492. “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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493. “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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494. “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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495. “And, of course, Kevin Smith.”

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