Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak.”

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302. “The sudden change in her eyes says it all. One second she loves me, and the next she loves me not.”

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303. “Star Trek? Oh, I did my homework. TOS, TNG, DS9. Even Voyager and Enterprise. I watched them all in chronological order. The movies, too. Phasers locked on target.”

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304. “My haptic suit did its best to simulate the sensation of torrents of falling water striking my body, but it felt more like someone pounding on my head, shoulders, and back with a bundle of sticks.”

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305. “Then what are you interested in, Herobrine?” I asked. “Why are you here?”

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306. “I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors. Cameron, Gilliam, Jackson, Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith.”

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307. “He was dressed in a plaid bathrobe and bunny slippers.”

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308. “He chuckled softly. I wanted to sock him in the face.”

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309. “Parzival: Farewell, Art3mis. Sweet dreams.”

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310. “She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I.”

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311. “I’d finally gained enough distance from my addiction to realize something. Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people.”

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312. “I didn’t know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life. Right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real. Do you understand?”

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313. “On the few occasions that Halliday agreed to do interviews, his behavior came off as bizarre, even by game-designer standards. He was hyperkinetic, aloof, and so socially inept that the interviewers often came away with the impression he was mentally ill.”

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314. “Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me.”

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315. “The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.”

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316. “A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.”

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317. “There was no way I’d be able to sleep tonight, or sit through school tomorrow. I had to go now.”

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318. “Just a maintenance tech here, folks, heading home after a long night of rebooting routers. That’s all. I am definitely not an indent making a daring escape with ten zettabytes of stolen company data in his pocket. Nosiree.”

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319. “This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.”

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320. “This is the OASIS. We exist as nothing but raw personality in here. Art3mis:.”

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321. “Once it was verified, a tiny augmented reality display extended from the front of the headset and then locked into place in front of my left eye, like a monocle. Several paragraphs of text appeared, floating in the air in front of me, superimposed in the center of my vision:.”

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322. “I stopped moving forward and the sound of hoofbeats also ceased, but not until a few seconds later. I turned around and saw the source of the sound. It wasn’t a horse. It was a man banging two coconut halves together.”

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323. “Says you, assface. It has some great moments.” “No,” I said, shaking my head. “It doesn’t. It’s even worse than that first Ewok flick, Caravan of Courage. They shoulda called it Caravan of Suck.”

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324. “So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you’re going to die someday and disappear forever.”

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325. “On the floor, directly underneath my suspended haptic chair, was my Okagami Runaround omnidirectional treadmill.”

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326. “The bay doors embedded on the starboard side of the Doolittle’s bow irised open and the Icebreaker launched out of it, accompanied by a dense escort of three dozen fighters.”

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327. “Well, I’m no Yngwie Malmsteen or anything,” I said. “I’m still learning.”

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328. “Maybe it was just as I had always secretly feared: The apple had fallen right next to the Crazy Tree.”

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329. “WarGames had been one of Halliday’s all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.”

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330. “I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.”

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331. “To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels.”

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332. “She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn’t hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.”

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333. “I RODE THE turbo elevator back up to the observation deck. The moment the elevator doors swished open and I stepped into the large domed room, the odor of burning cannabis filled my nose. The smell grew increasingly stronger the farther I ventured into the room, as did the familiar strains of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, punctuated by fits of only slightly suppressed laughter.”

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334. “But I refused to give up. Until an avatar reached Halliday’s Easter egg, anything was still possible. Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I began to formulate a plan. A bold, outrageous plan that would require epic amounts of luck to pull off.”

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335. “We can’t be together anymore, Wade,” she said evenly, her voice suddenly devoid of emotion. “Not when we disagree on something so basic. And so important. Your actions today will have disastrous consequences. I’m sorry you can’t see that.”

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336. “Cats with a serious marble deficiency.”

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337. “The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.”

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338. “One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity’s character?”

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339. “After all, I’d just won the contest to become his sole heir.”

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340. “As we sprinted from the Candle Room to the Music Club to the Boudoir to the Virtual Video Room, a song called “Interactive” played on a continuous loop in every room. Aech explained that this was a song Prince wrote exclusively for a Myst-like videogame he released with the same title.”

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341. “Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I.”

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342. “His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn’t sell out the the Sixers.”

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343. “Normally, the newsfeeds didn’t interrupt everyone’s interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that.”

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344. “But these were real aliens we were fighting – sentient beings with highly advanced technology, intent on destroying us. And we were outnumbered thousands to one. We should’ve been dead a hundred times already. Were humans really just better at war than they were, or all this time, had the aliens been throwing the game?”

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345. “The sight suddenly drove home the fantastic isolation of the place.”

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346. “This is a special strain of Yoda Kush that I myself created,” Shin said, holding up his giant spliff.”

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347. “I’d never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before.”

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348. “So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday’s last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.”

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349. “The tenderness in her tone, which had once been so familiar to me, now felt completely foreign. Hearing it again was like a knife in my heart.”

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350. “Yeah, I wish we could skip this storyline crap,” Cruz said. “Bor-ing.”

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