Quotes from Ernest Cline

My accusation seemed to detonate on his face like a bomb. His features began to contort, but I turned my back on him so I wouldn't have to see the rest of his reaction. I walked out of there as fast as I could without looking

Getting outside is highly overrated.

Gokouun o inorimasu

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

containing a single person strapped into a high-end

his obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.)

I'd finally gained enough distance from my addiction to realize something. Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people.

All of them have tentacles, like their mother! The youngest one in curls!" Diehl laughed. Cruz laughed. I laughed.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron

That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.

I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking

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 need each of you to build the best rig you can, as fast as you can.

After I won Halliday's contest

flying frak at a rolling Rathtar

Almanac: "People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.

If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.

a Habashaw OIR-9400

GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak

probably because they didn't have to spend half their time acting as babysitters and disciplinarians. The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring that students remained quiet and in their seats. All the teachers had to do was teach.

The half dozen GSS employees inside all avoided making direct eye contact. I could guess what all of them were thinking: Meet the new boss, weird as the old boss.