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Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2) QUOTES

Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2) QUOTES

1 " My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game...Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the video game of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all the other players you encounter in your travels. Kirk says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

2 " And sometimes, when you think you've finally reached the end of the game, suddenly you find yourself standing at the start of a whole new level. A level that you've never seen before.

And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing. Because the game that is your life still isn't over yet. And there's no telling how far you might be able to get, what you might discover, or who you might meet when you get there. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

3 " Are you telling me that I have to spend the last hour of my life surrounded by a bunch of fucking Hobbits, Z? "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

4 " But all I had to show for my efforts was an impressive familiarity with obscure Sailor Moon trivia and an inexplicable desire to cosplay as Tuxedo Mask (which I may or may not have acted upon in the solitude and privacy of my own home). "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

5 " To quote Sarah Connor: ‘You’re all dead already.’ You, your friends, your customers—all of you. You poisoned your own planet, destroyed its climate, defiled its ecosystem, and killed off all of its biodiversity.” He pointed at each of us. “You’re going to be extinct soon, too, by your hands. And you know it. That’s why most of you spend every second you can wired up to the OASIS. You’ve already given up, and now you’re all just waiting around to die. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

6 " I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

7 " My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it’s Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it’s a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it’d be a lot more fun for everyone. —Anorak’s Almanac, chapter 77, verses 11–20 "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

8 " I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

9 " My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

10 " Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

11 " Two-Face was right. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

12 " If it weren’t for Tolkien, all of us nerds would’ve had a lot less fun during the last ninety years. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

13 " Everybody wants to rule the world. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

14 " The simulation had now become indistinguishable from real life. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

15 " Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too. But not me. I prefer to lead with my love—to define myself through joyous yawps of admiration, instead of cynical declarations of disdain. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

16 " There it was: number 42. Another of Halliday’s jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the “Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

17 " Maybe every time an intelligent species grew advanced enough to invent a global computer network, they would then develop some form of social media, which would immediately fill these beings with such an intense hatred for one another that they ended up wiping themselves out within four or five decades. "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

18 " You’re a fucking toaster! "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

19 " How the fuck do you negotiate with a piece of software? "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

20 " (I’d recently discovered that when you’re madly in love with someone they can persuade you to do pretty much anything.) "

― Ernest Cline , Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)