Quotes from book

Ready Player One

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

“Going outside is highly overrated.”

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

“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”

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

“I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.”

“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. In a word:.”

“I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.”

“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.”

“Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?”

“The Facts were right there waiting for me, hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest”

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all thelyrics by heart.”

“The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.”

“So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?”

“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.”

“Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.”

“I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”

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

“A river of words flowed between us.”