Quotes from Ernest Cline

Strong with the Dark Side of the Force that place is. In you must go, mofo.

My God, it's full of stars," I heard a disembodied voice say. I recognized it as a sound bite from the film 2010.

Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-'80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way.

The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily.

could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence. Our second game came right down

MTFBWYA, Parzival

Great, Wade, I thought. You just called her laugh "dorky." Real smooth.

Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante. Los videojuegos son lo único que la hacen soportable.

I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I'd obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.

Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.

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.

and our seeming disregard for its effect on our already-changing climate—in an entirely new light.

At first, I couldn't understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire's death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: "dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria.

found myself gazing in wonderment at my surroundings. Even now, I couldn't help but be awed by the scope and detail of Tolkien's imagination. After almost a century, artists and storytellers and programmers were still drawing inspiration from his creation.

was very special. It was impossible not to fall in love with her." He smiled at me. "You know what it's like to meet someone like that, don't you?

Says you, assface. It has some great moments." "No," I said, shaking my head. "It doesn't. It's even worse than that first Ewok flick, Caravan of Courage. They shoulda called it Caravan of Suck.

I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?

Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying

The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.

now the conditions at many schools had gotten so terrible that every kid with half a brain was being encouraged to stay at home and attend school online. I

one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Finally, after it felt like we'd been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road.