Ready Player One

"Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable."

"A lot of kids owned their own interplanetary vehicles. School parking lots all over Ludus were filled with UFOs, TIE fighters, old NASA space shuttles, Vipers from Battlestar Galactica, and other spacecraft designs lifted from every sci-fi movie and TV show you can think of."

"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."

"We dont need a map because where we are going, there is no map"

"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."

"And then it finally happened. Right while I was sitting there daydreaming in Latin class."

"Being human totally sucks most of the time."

"The van was my refuge. My Batcave. My Fortress of Solitude."

"For the first time, I knew what is was to be a natural at something. To have a gift."

"No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school grounds, anyway."

"At first, these individuals were known simply as "egg hunters," but this was quickly truncated to the nickname "gunters."

"For years hunters had speculated that Anorak still roamed the OASIS, now as an autonomous NPC. Halliday’s ghost in the machine."