Quotes from Ernest Cline

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

Eu não sabia como me relacionar com as pessoas. Senti medo durante toda a minha vida. Até eu saber que estava terminando. Foi quando eu percebi que, por mais assustadora e dolorosa que a realidade possa ser, é também o único lugar onde se pode encontrar felicidade de verdade. Porque a realidade é real. Entendeu?

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

These "wise men" apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)

H-h-hey there, compadre!

Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.

You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog.

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.

Parzival: Farewell, Art3mis. Sweet dreams.

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

Competition brings out the best in me.

Hello, fish," I whispered, reciting an old incantation. "Welcome to my barrel.

But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want." "Oh, snap!" Milo muttered under his breath.

Where'd you get the coconuts?

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.

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.

Eu não sabia como me relacionar com as pessoas. Senti Medo durante toda a minha vida. Até eu saber que estava terminando. Foi quando eu percebi que, por mais assustadora e dolorosa a realidade possa ser, é também o único lugar onde se pode encontrar felicidade de verdade. Porque a realidade é real.

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing. Because the game that is your life still isn't over yet. And there's no telling how far you might be able to get, what you might discover, or who you might meet when you get there.

G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

Christ! Haven't any of you rewatched The Matrix lately? Or Sword Art Online?

I tried my best to fit in. Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me. But even the other outcasts wanted nothing to do with me. I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. Whenever I got near one of them, I invariably broke out in a cold sweat and lost the ability to speak in complete sentences.

The guy had no sense of decorum.

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.