Quotes from Ernest Cline

Well, hello there!

Halliday had to keep all of his D&D stuff over at Og's house. Because his own parents thought D&D was satanic and forbid him from playing it.

I don't care if Spielberg directed

I aimed my rocket eighty-eight right into the torrent of enemy fighters and fanned the trigger on my flight stick to fire off a rapid volley of plasma bolts.

You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation

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

The captain conceals the Jade Key in a dwelling long neglected But you can only blow the whistle once the trophies are all collected For

City-sized shopping malls were erected in the blink of an eye, and storefronts spread across planets like time-lapse footage of mold devouring an orange.

My life wasn't so bad. At least that's what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt.

Neuromancer.

Also, don't touch anything, and if you can help it, try not to look at anything either—not for longer than a second or two. Otherwise you might trigger some educational minigame or side quest that you'll be forced to complete, and we'll have to go on without you. We don't have time to stop and play Blue's Clues.

Then the Hunt for Halliday's Easter egg began. That was what saved me, I think. Suddenly I'd found something worth doing. A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

I thought. You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park

I also have a habit of overeating when I was depressed or frustrated, which was most of the time.

Something Daito had left to me in his will.

Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most.

Oh, and Wolverine had that idiotic Muramasa Blade made with part of his soul. Which, while incredibly lame, was still a far cooler magical weapon than Sting!

teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.

And then it was on like Red Dawn.

Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place in the same universe? You ever consider that?" I

It is the world's first fully functional noninvasive brain-computer interface. It allows an OASIS user to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel their avatar's virtual environment, via signals transmitted directly into their cerebral cortex. The headset's sensor array also monitors and interprets its wearer's brain activity, allowing them to control their OASIS avatar just as they do their physical body—simply by thinking about it.

What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore

I never blamed my mom for the way things were. She was a victim of fate and cruel circumstance, like everyone else. Her generation had it the hardest. She'd been born into a world of plenty, then had to watch it all slowly vanish. More than anything, I remember feeling sorry for her.