Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I also have a habit of overeating when I was depressed or frustrated, which was most of the time.”

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402. “Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo.”

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403. “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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404. “I don’t care if Spielberg directed.”

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

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

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407. “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-.”

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408. “I didn’t try to run. I didn’t even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.”

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409. “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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410. “Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Pink Floyd.”

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

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412. “The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.”

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

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415. “When I tried to access one of the other entertainment libraries, Vintage Movies, the system informed me that I wouldn’t be granted access to a wider selection of entertainment options until I had received an above-average rating in three consecutive employee performance reviews. Then the system asked me if I wanted more information on the Indentured Employee Entertainment Reward Program. I didn’t.”

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416. “The real van that I’d used as my hideout had been extracted from the junk pile and airlifted to Columbus, so it could be put on display in the GSS Museum.”

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

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

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419. “That’s the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.”

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420. “I need each of you to build the best rig you can, as fast as you can.”

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421. “Og led us through the mansion’s lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.”

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422. “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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423. “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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424. “Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.”

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425. “Where’d you get the coconuts?”

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426. “Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.”

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

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428. “Admittedly, all the time I’d had to devote to the game had shaved a full point off my grade average, and it had probably cost me my relationship with Ellen, too.”

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429. “I didn’t get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo’s pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.”

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

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432. “We’ll do our best.” “I know you will.”

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433. “The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants.”

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434. “Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.”

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435. “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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436. “Instead, he picked up his bass guitar, and, in what seemed like an odd coincidence, he began to play a solo version of “One of These Days” while staring up at the stars projected on the dome over our heads. Then I noticed a practice set list taped to the floor in front of him, and saw that several of the songs listed there were tracks I knew from my father’s old mixtapes.”

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437. “Leeroy Jenkins!”

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438. “The half dozen GSS employees inside all avoided making direct eye contact. I could guess what all of them were thinking: Meet the new boss, weird as the old boss.”

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439. “Her instinct was always to act out of kindness and generosity instead of self-interest. She was a better person than me, and I was a better person when I was around her.”

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440. “She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.”

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441. “Listen,” I said. “It really was luck. I’ve got a knack for classic arcade games. That’s my specialty.” I shrugged. “Stop hitting yourself like Rain Man, OK?” She.”

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

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

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445. “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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446. “But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology.”

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447. “I blinked and looked again – but it was still out there, a shiny chrome disc zigzagging around in the sky. My eyes struggled to track the object through a series of increasingly fast, impossibly sharp turns that would have juiced a human being, had there been any aboard. The disc streaked toward the distant horizon, then came to an instantaneous stop just above it. It hovered there motionless over the distant tree line for a few seconds, as if scanning.”

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448. “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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449. “You had to be careful whenever you entered a new zone or sector. You had to be prepared. But like I said, I didn’t have that problem. I was stuck at school.”

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450. “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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