Quotes from Ernest Cline

WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.

The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants.

There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem. 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?

Nejsem z reality zrovna na vÄ›tvi, ale je to poÃ…â"¢Ã¡d jediné mÃ

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder

Sempre que via o sol, eu me lembrava de que estava olhando para uma estrela. Uma entre mais de cem bilhões de estrelas em nossa galáxia. Uma galáxia que era apenas uma entre bilhões de outras galáxias no Universo. Isso me ajudava a manter a cabeça no lugar.

His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.

Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.

Ray seemed about to say something more when a boom shook the entire shuttle. I felt a rush of panic, thinking we'd just come under attack. Then I realized we'd just broken the sound barrier.

Eu não sabia como me relacionar com as pessoas. Senti Medo durante toda a minha vida. Até eu saber que estava terminando. Foi quando eu percebi que, por mais assustadora e dolorosa a realidade possa ser, é também o único lugar onde se pode encontrar felicidade de verdade. Porque a realidade é real.

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.