Cline Quotes & Sayings

My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge. — Ernest Cline

We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them - they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. Suzanne — Emma Cline

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I — Ernest Cline

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards! — Patsy Cline

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually. — Margaret Cho

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. — Ernest Cline

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half. — Patsy Cline

I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn't have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical. — Ernest Cline

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support. — Patsy Cline

We have to stop pretending that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West. — Edward Cline

Time lost can never be recovered ... and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere. — Erik Larson

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. — Emma Cline

I knew Armada was only a videogame, but I'd never been one of the "best of the best" at anything before, and my accomplishment gave me a real sense of pride. — Ernest Cline

Archomai is where believing is being. — T.A. Cline

Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media. — Ernest Cline

He had a weary air of responsibility about him, both bureaucratic and mythological, like someone doomed to guard a cave for all eternity. I — Emma Cline

Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith. I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. You could say I covered all the bases. I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC — Ernest Cline

We were jealous, imagining a boyfriend who wanted you so bad he broke the law. — Emma Cline

The fumes of cruciferous vegetables, roiling in plastic bags. Nothing — Emma Cline

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy. — Patsy Cline

I noticed that Halliday had added an old eight-track tape player to the cockpit control panel. There was also a rack of eight-track tapes mounted over my right shoulder. I grabbed one and slapped it into the deck. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC began to blast out of the robot's internal and external speakers, so loud it made my chair vibrate. — Ernest Cline

The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty. — Ernest Cline

Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who's TARDIS. — Ernest Cline

AA 241:87 - I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. — Ernest Cline

Some time later, she leaned over and kissed me. It felt just like all those songs and poems had promised it would. It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning. — Ernest Cline

A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field? — Ernest Cline

I am a Patsy Cline fan. — Charlie Day

You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion. She motioned to our virtual surroundings. — Ernest Cline

The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. — Ernest Cline

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade. — Ernest Cline

I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer. — Ernest Cline

You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software! — Ernest Cline

I dropped my backpack, shrugged off my coat, and hopped on the exercise bike. Charging the batteries was usually the only physical exercise I got each day. — Ernest Cline

Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart. — Ernest Cline

I had spent hundreds of hours gazing out at the calm, conquered suburban landscape surrounding my school, silently yearning for the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, a freak accident that would give me super powers, or perhaps the sudden appearance of a band of time-traveling kleptomaniac dwarves. — Ernest Cline

I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it. — Ernest Cline

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. — Ernest Cline

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: hot. — Ernest Cline

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing! — Ernest Cline

There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much earlier in the timeline: an insistence that they noticed a strange quality to the sunlight that morning or excessive static in their sheets. A meaningless fight with a boyfriend. As if the presentiment of catastrophe wove itself into everything that came before. — Emma Cline

Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place. — Ernest Cline

You cannot escape your destiny,' — Ernest Cline

Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus — Emma Cline

but I was past the point of caring, the night stoking a foolish, confused sense that I had somehow returned to the world after a period of absence, had taken up residence again in the realm of the living. — Emma Cline

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power. — Carly Simon

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it. — Kacey Musgraves

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language. — Ernest Cline

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading. — Ernest Cline

Now whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a remote-controlled TIE Fighter or X-Wing yet. — Ernest Cline

Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say. — Ernest Cline

Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold on to it like a blanket. They don't realize it keeps them slaves. It's sick" "What's funny is that as soon as you give everything away, as soon as you say, Here, take it - that's when you really have everything". — Emma Cline

...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't... — Emma Cline

Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see. — Ernest Cline

We all want to be seen. - — Emma Cline

What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars - he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off - but on a global scale! — Ernest Cline

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20. — Patsy Cline

It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as the kind of girls who belonged to each other. — Emma Cline

How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling. — Emma Cline

Only after the trial did things come into focus, that night taking on the now familiar arc. Every detail and blip made public. There are times I try to guess what part I might have played. What amount would belong to me. It's easiest to think I wouldn't have done anything, like I would have stopped them, my presence the mooring that kept Suzanne in the human realm. That was the wish, the cogent parable. But there was another possibility that slouched along, insistent and unseen. The bogeyman under the bed, the snake at the bottom of the stairs: maybe I would have done something, too. Maybe it would have been easy. — Emma Cline

Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings. — Ernest Cline

Oh my great hope, all things are possible if you have the right knowledge — T.A. Cline

Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick smearing at my bare thighs. I would be shunted along whatever would happen, I understood. However he piloted the night. And there wasn't fear, just a feeling adjacent to excitement, a viewing from the wings. What would happen to Evie? — Emma Cline

all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A — Ernest Cline

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline. — Trisha Yearwood

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

I'm gonna be something one of these days. — Patsy Cline

Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots. — Emma Cline

If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond? — Ernest Cline

That was a giant ball of fail. What now? — Ernest Cline

no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact. — Ernest Cline

The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy. — Emma Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself. — Patsy Cline

I took on the shape of a girl. — Emma Cline

Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. — Ernest Cline

We were at the edge of space. The boundary I'd dreamed of crossing my entire life. I'd never really believed I'd get the chance to do it during my lifetime - let alone today, when I should've been in my first-period civics class. — Ernest Cline

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office. — Ernest Cline

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it. — Edward Cline

Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I — Ernest Cline

Several paragraphs of dense text began to scroll across the screen, an unreadable blur of legalese outlining all the details of enlistment. It would have taken hours to read it all, and then I still probably wouldn't have understood a word of it. — Ernest Cline

Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS. — Ernest Cline

He often referred to Rush's three members - Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee - as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North. — Ernest Cline

Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron," I said. — Ernest Cline

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me. — Patsy Cline

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone? — T.A. Cline

Now, I have a new quest. A far more important one." "And that is?" "Revenge. — Ernest Cline

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. — Ernest Cline

They may have used alien technology in these things," she said. "But the software they installed to run it all was clearly created by humans - overworked, underpaid programmers like me who take all kinds of shortcuts. The security protocols on the file-sharing system are a total joke. It only took me about five minutes to jailbreak this thing. — Ernest Cline

That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything. — Emma Cline

A river of words flowed between us. — Ernest Cline

How they told me I was having fun all the time, and there was no way to explain that I wasn't. — Emma Cline

Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice. — Ernest Cline

And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins. — Ernest Cline

Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way. The sleepy crease of his eyes from his permanent high. Connie paled in comparison: I didn't really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving you or not loving you. — Emma Cline

Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language. — T.A. Cline

Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude. — Ernest Cline

Maybe I should have been frightened of him. This older man who saw that I was alone, who felt like I owed him something, which was the worst thing a man like that could feel. — Emma Cline

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye. — Patsy Cline

That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you. — Emma Cline

Julian smiled what I thought of as the smile of an only son, someone who believed he would always get what he wanted. — Emma Cline

She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. — Ernest Cline