Quotes from Ernest Cline

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

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

Nejsem z reality zrovna na vÄ›tvi, ale je to poÃ…â"¢ád jediné místo, kde dostanete sluÅ¡né jídlo. (Groucho Marx)

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

Time to make the doughnuts.

O que acontece depois da morte? Bem, não sabemos ao certo. Mas as evidências sugerem que não acontece nada. Você morre, seu cérebro para de funcionar e você some e deixa de fazer perguntas irritantes.

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder

now had a cure for all forms of cancer, which had eradicated the disease in a matter of weeks.

Minha vida não era tão ruim. Pelo menos era isso o que dizia a mim mesmo o tempo todo, numa tentativa inútil de afastar a enorme solidão que sentia.

The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.

heretofore made…." He continues reading

You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore.

Sempre que via o sol, eu me lembrava de que estava olhando para uma estrela. Uma entre mais de cem bilhões de estrelas em nossa galáxia. Uma galáxia que era apenas uma entre bilhões de outras galáxias no Universo. Isso me ajudava a manter a cabeça no lugar.

My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.

Para mim, a escola tinha sido um exercício darwiniano. Um ataque diário de ridicularização, abuso e isolamento.

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

William Higinbotham

as long as we were both still alive, there was a chance I could make things right with her.

So these aliens, they really have Glaive Fighters?

Uma pessoa consegue guardar um segredo, mas não duas.

Jeez. Cool your tool.

Ali, sob as luzes fluorescentes de meu pequeno apartamento de um cômodo, não havia modo de escapar da verdade. Na vida real, eu não passava de um ermitão antissocial. Um recluso. Um geek pálido obcecado pela cultura pop. Um introvertido agorafóbico, sem amigos, família ou contato com pessoas. Eu era apenas mais uma alma triste, perdida e solitária, desperdiçando a vida em um videogame.

Ninguém no mundo consegue o que quer e isso é bonito.

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.