Quotes from Ernest Cline

You're an ignorant know-nothing twink.

Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment. So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we're still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left.

I didn't get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo's pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.

Correct," the machine replied. "But thankfully you made the correct choice, and knowingly disengaged from the cycle of warlike escalation with your imaginary enemy. That is why I'm speaking to you now. Once the Test has been passed, the Emissary makes contact with the individual most directly responsible, to inform them that their species has been invited to join the Sodality.

I fired a last volley of plasma bolts at the unprotected enemy ship, which was already vibrating from the buildup of power in its reactor core, and held my breath as they streaked toward it, silently praying to Crom that they would reach the Glaive and destroy it before it finished transforming itself into a weapon of mass destruction.

My avatar materialized in front of my locker on the second floor of my high school—the exact spot where I'd been standing when I'd logged out the night before.

The ONI's software and documentation have already been emailed to your private OASIS account

My haptic suit did its best to simulate the sensation of torrents of falling water striking my body, but it felt more like someone pounding on my head, shoulders, and back with a bundle of sticks.

think it could help humanity. But it could also make things even worse. It will all depend on the timing, I think.

Og led us through the mansion's lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.

asked Shoto about it, he told me it was a conscious choice by the game's creators, to promote pacifism and nonviolence. "Wow," Aech said. "A nonviolent game about killing people with knives. Genius.

Newer, faster, or more versatile components were always being released, so I was constantly spending large chunks of my meager income on upgrades.

TOS, TNG, DS9.

My father's face contorted in pain, and that was when I turned and walked away, well out of earshot, to let them talk in private—and to avoid a crying jag of my own.

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I

Passion was passion and love was love, regardless of who the participants involved were, or what sort of body they were assigned at birth.

After all, I'd just won the contest to become his sole heir.

Leeroy Jenkins!

So the real jaw-dropping news that January morning, the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes, concerned the contents of Halliday's last will and testament, and the fate of his vast fortune.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,' Ã¢â'¬Â the young woman recited. " Ã¢â'¬ËœAnd makes it fearful and degenerate; Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.

Seek the Seven Shards of the Siren's Soul 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

Christ, who the fuck cares, man?" Lex hissed back.

These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols.

I gave her another salute—then, like a goofball, I pretended to poke myself in the eye as I did, just to hear the sound of her laugh.