Ready Player Two

very first time.

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.

I wore the same outfit every day, so I never had to expend any thought on what to wear next. I got the idea from Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, and he, in turn, got it from Albert Einstein

Christ! Haven’t any of you rewatched The Matrix lately? Or Sword Art Online?

One second she loves me, and the next she loves me not

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

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.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame

when you’re madly in love with someone they can persuade you to do pretty much anything

“ ‘Recast the foul, restore his ending. Andie’s first fate still needs mending.’ ”