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Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “I wasn’t some dilettante.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “He wasn’t dead!”
Ernest Cline Quote: “This is your QComm,” he explained. “It’s a Quantum Communicator – basically a smartphone with unlimited range. It will work anywhere in the world – or in outer space.” He smiled. “They also have insanely fast Internet access and Bluetooth capability. I already imported all of your contacts, photos, and music from your iPhone, so you’re all set up.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “I took control of a Happy Helpdesk avatar, a cookie-cutter Ken doll that I used to take tech-support calls. This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. I thought of this place as my own private virtual hell.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “I also have a habit of overeating when I was depressed or frustrated, which was most of the time.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “I don’t care if Spielberg directed.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Knavery?” Art3mis said after she’d finished reading it. “Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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 Quote: “I didn’t try to run. I didn’t even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Pink Floyd.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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 Quote: “Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar’s chest and muttered a few arcane words.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Once she and I started touching each other, we both found it difficult to stop.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “It was a partnership destined to alter the course of human history.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “That’s the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “I actually switched to a third-person view for a few seconds, just to admire how cool my avatar looked wearing it.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Where’d you get the coconuts?”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “We’ll do our best.” “I know you will.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Leeroy Jenkins!”

445. “Leeroy Jenkins!

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Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “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.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “Something Daito had left to me in his will.”
Ernest Cline Quote: “And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.”
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