"We don't need a map because where we are going, there is no map"

"Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest."

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

"Being human totally sucks most of the time."

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

"For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Exi…"

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

"These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual…"

"Gunters who wanted help joined a clan, and Aech and I both agreed that clans were for suck-asses and poseurs."

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