Ernest Cline Quotes

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• Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A…
• Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or…
• Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could…
• Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone…
• I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and…
• You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
• ...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical…
• I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My…
• You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
• I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the…
• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but…
• For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
• Going outside is highly overrated.
• Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
• One person can keep a secret, but not two.
• Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
• You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
• No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful
• It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

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