Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “People who were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, that’s who. Cats with a serious marble deficiency.”

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102. “Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.”

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103. “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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104. “Welcome to Crystal Palace,” Ray said. “That’s the EDA’s code name for this place.” “Why?” I asked. He shook his head. “Because it’s easier to say than ‘Earth Defense Alliance Strategic Command Post Number Fourteen,’ ” he said. “Sounds cooler, too.”

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105. “I think it’s a bit silly to brand the Internet as the ‘downfall of youth.’”

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106. “We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.”

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107. “I don’t care if Spielberg directed it. It’s a chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture.”

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108. “All I could do was stand there and wait for it to dissipate. “You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.” I.”

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109. “Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!”

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110. “I was in love with her. I could feel it, deep in the soft, chewy caramel center of my being. And.”

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111. “She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world.”

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112. “At this school, the only real weapons were words, so I’d become skilled at wielding them.”

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113. “I had a weakness for vintage kaiju and tokusatsu, shows like Spectreman, The Space Giants, and Supaidaman.”

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114. “Imagine that Dungeons and Dragons and an ’80s video arcade made hot, sweet love, and their child was raised in Azeroth. If you’re not already experiencing a nerdgasm at the thought, I don’t want to know you.” – John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of Old Man’s War.”

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115. “I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”

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116. “I knew there was probably life elsewhere. But given the vast size and age of the universe, I also knew how astronomically unlikely it was we would ever make contact with it, much less within the narrow window of my own lifetime. We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.”

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117. “Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network... ” “Of course they do!” Morrow shouted gleefully. ‘The own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?”

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118. “My whole life, I felt like I was destined to do something important, but I was only ever good at videogames, which I always figured would be completely useless. But it’s not useless, and neither am I. I think this is what I was always destined to do with my life. I just never knew it.”

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119. “Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star.”

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120. “My Shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All Stars. They bestow their wearer with both speed and flight.”

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121. “I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission.”

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122. “In the OASIS, you could become whomever and whatever you wanted to be, without ever revealing your true identity, because your anonymity was guaranteed.”

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123. “Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar’s name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.”

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124. “I don’t know if the ’80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Star Wars’ – movies that became classics.”

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125. “Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interest. We were driven by the same goal. She got all 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. Not even with Aech.”

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126. “Era demasiado raro incluso para los raros.”

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127. “Nebraska,” I said. “What’s in Nebraska?” “A top-secret Earth Defense Alliance base.”

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128. “It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game.”

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129. “I’m a gamer, Zack. Like you. When I find myself confronted with a puzzle, I can’t help but try to solve it.”

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130. “I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education.”

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131. “I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer’s tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer.”

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132. “Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who’s TARDIS.”

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133. “The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. – Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender.”

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134. “And then it was on like Red Dawn.”

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135. “I’m sort of like Q in the James Bond films. Except, you know, I only get to hand out this one thing.”

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136. “In Marie’s opinion, the OASIS was the best thing that had ever happened to both women and people of color. From the very start, Marie had used a white male avatar to conduct all of her online business, because of the marked difference it made in how she was treated and the opportunities she was given. When.”

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137. “If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?”

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138. “Gokouun o inorimasu,” Shoto said. “Do your best.”

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139. “What if they’re using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars – he was training him and he didn’t even realize it! Wax on, wax off – but on a global scale!”

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140. “I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing ’80s cover tunes on ukuleles.”

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141. “In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.”

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142. “I don’t know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.”

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143. “L0hengrin saw me noticing this and nodded her approval. But she didn’t say anything.”

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144. “The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series.”

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145. “I’ve retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, “I don’t know, I think we’ve played a little too much Mario.””

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146. “Surely, you must be joking,” Aech said. “No, I am not joking. And don’t call me Shirley.”

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147. “I’ll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen?” I finished for her. “Exactly.” I tried to look hurt. “I find your lack of faith disturbing.”

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148. “My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I’ve encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.”

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149. “When my father saw the jacket, he grinned wide and spent a minute looking over each and every patch.”

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150. “I dropped my backpack, shrugged off my coat, and hopped on the exercise bike. Charging the batteries was usually the only physical exercise I got each day.”

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