Ready Player One Quotes by Chapter

[Halliday] was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity...

I was still better off than most of the kids in Africa. [...] My life wasn't so bad. (1.38)

I'd heard that if you accessed the simulation with a new state-of-the-art immersion rig, it was almost impossible to tell the OASIS from reality. (2.2)

Logging into a chat room was a little like being in two places at once. (3.1)

A lot of OASIS users […] only used the OASIS for entertainment, business, shopping, and hanging out with their friends. (4.22)

The OASIS [was] beautifully rendered in meticulous graphical detail, right down to bugs and blades of grass, wind and weather patterns. (5.27)

I read every novel by every single one of Halliday's favorite authors. (6.6)

I wasn't sure why they bothered. They could just as easily have watched the game via vidfeed. (7.44)

A gifted human player could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. (8.49)

[Art3mis] was even cooler in person than I'd imagined. (9.43)

I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday's bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout [...] entering commands on an imaginary keyboard. All the intervening layers slipped away...

I had watched WarGames over three dozen times. (11.9)

I made a silent vow not to go outside again until I had completed my quest. I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg. (16.28)

"Everyone thinks I'm a man in real life." (17.27)

Art3mis winked at me, and then her legs melted together to form a mermaid's tail. (18.34)

I'd come to see my [OASIS] rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. (19.50)

Our conversations were now stilted and reserved, as if [Aech and I] were both afraid of revealing some key piece of information the other might be able to use. (20.17)

I wanted to win the contest more than ever. Not just for the money. I wanted to prove myself to Art3mis. (21.16)

I would have to play a perfect game of Pac-Man. (22.35)

If the Sixers tried to keep all of [the gunters] at bay, it would mean war on a scale never before seen in the history of OASIS. (23.41)

You know you've totally screwed up your life when […] the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software. (24.25)

"We were not brothers. Not in real life. Just in the OASIS. [...] We only knew each other online. I never actually met him." (25.21)

I now looked exactly like the hero of Black Tiger—a muscular, half-naked barbarian warrior dressed in an armored thong and a horned helmet. (26.52)

The buildings looked identical to their headquarters in the OASIS on IOI-1, but here in the real world they seemed much more impressive. (29.4)

I felt like a convict in an old prison movie, returning to my cell each night to tunnel through the wall with a teaspoon. (30.52)

Bryce Lynch no longer existed. I was Wade Watts again. (31.29)

The young woman sitting in front of me was my best friend, Aech. (33.51)

Even though I now knew Aech was actually a female in real life, her avatar was still male, so I decided to continue to refer to him as such. (34.17)

Art3mis counted to three, and we turned our keys in unison. (35.71)

"I never would have gotten this far on my own. [...] I need your help." (36.72)

I was standing in a re-creation of James Halliday's office, the room in his mansion where he'd spent most of the last fifteen years of his life. (37.120)

"As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness." (38.48)

"We're going to make the world a better place, right?" (39.33)