Quotes from Ernest Cline

That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.

Han will have that shield down,' Ã¢â'¬Â Aech quoted. " Ã¢â'¬ËœWe've got to give him more time!' 

Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network.…" "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. "They own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean, did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?" ? Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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

Oh, and by the way Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.

We are coming here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and we have no more bubblegum!

A dude just ahead of me in line actually had a top-of-the-line miniature Sinatro OASIS console concealed inside a prosthetic testicle. Talk about balls.

All things are ready, if our minds be so' Ã¢â'¬Â I heard Whoadie whisper over the comm.

You're part of my chosen family, which is the only kind that matters. Right?

The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

Few young men know the Oedipal torment of growing up with an insanely hot, perpetually single mom.

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

Going outside is highly overrated.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. 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. Because reality is real.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star . One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

You're evil, you know that?" I said. She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.