Video Game Quotes

“It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do.”
― Lightning Claire Farron FF13

“Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.”
― Rachel Caine

“But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called 'determination'. So as long as you hold on, so as long as you do what's in your heart, I believe you can do the right thing.”
― Toby Fox

“Sam would later tell people that these mazes were his first attempts at writing games. "A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form." Maybe so, but this was revisionist and self-aggrandizing. The mazes were for Sadie. To design a game is to imagine the person who will eventually play it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?”
― Happy Mask Salesman

“Snake, what’s wrong? Snake? SNAAKKKKEEEE!”
― 志倉千代丸, Occultic;Nine 1 -オカルティック・ナイン- [Okarutikku Nain]

“Video Games are a great analogy for life. You go through level, get thrown off by obstacles, and face several enemies.”
― Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

“If you're reading this, you must be in dire need of a change. The same thing happened to me, long ago. I'd lost sight of what mattered most in life... real connections with other people and nature. So I dropped everything and moved to the place I truly belong.”
― ConcernedApe

“We’ve actually made the world into this very ugly video game, and it’s not a sustainable model.”
― Jeff Mach, "I Hate Your Time Machine": A fiction-fueled guide to some of the worst tropes of Fantasy & Science Fiction

“But stones, too, can lie.”
― Amy Hennig

“Death is not the only possible outcome.”
― Amy Hennig

“Even in the darkest of times, there is always hope. But sometimes fear clouds our vision. Sometimes our strength gives out. And yet sometimes, when all seems lost, a light shines through the darkness, and we are reminded that even the smallest amount of courage can turn the tides of war. "
-Ignitus, The Legend of Spyro: A new Beginning”
― Patrick Hegarty

“It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you'd expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Isn't that what anyone wants, though?" the girl with the cat-eye glasses asks in response. "To be able to make your own choices and decisions but to have it be part of a story?" You want that narrative there to trust in, even if you want to maintain your own free will."

"You want to decide where to go and what to do and which door to open but you still want to win the game...”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Dead Sea was her comfort game. She decided she'd go back to her apartment and kill zombies for a while.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You don't know much about guns, other than the guns you've used in video games, like Doom. And even when you play Doom, guns are not your weapon of choice. You prefer a chainsaw or a rocket launcher, weapons with more Grand Guignol-style thrills to them.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You see, señorita, mystery is important. To know everything, to know the whole truth, is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about the what and how and where.”
― Ragnar Tørnquist, The Longest Journey Script

“I lost a keyboard from the racing mission in Mafia.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Don't Make a Girl a Promis You Can't Keep”
― Cortana Halo Legends

“Often when we guess at others' motives, we reveal only our own.”
― Mara Sov, Destiny

“Ash bumped her shoulder. “Hey, Vale. I got a joke for you.”
She smiled. “Okay.”
“What do you do when the world champion of Scrolls of the Illuminati knocks on your door?”
“I…” Vale giggled. “I have no idea.”
“You say ‘well done, sir!’ then pay the man for the pizza!”
Ash cracked up at his own joke and a moment later, Vale began to laugh too. For a few seconds, it felt like everything was normal again.”
― Danika Stone, Switchback

“They didn't need to play a video game; it suddenly felt like they were living one.”
― J.T. Tenera, Secrets of the Sealed Forest

“If you're reading this, you must be in dire need of a change. The same thing happened to me, long ago. I'd lost sight of what mattered most in life... real connections with other people and nature. So I dropped everything and moved to the place I truly belong.”
― Eric Barone

“Raising our kids in this way-without television, video games, or even a lot of extra friends-I believe they have gained independence and the ability to entertain themselves and use their own imaginations.”
― Chris Nobel

“The I.C.S.L.E.S., In A World Needing A Brand New Idol? INNA CIRCLE SET LIKE SQUARE, Explanation = Like^2 list key keep”
― Jonathan Roy Mckinney

“With success came pressure to keep making the game better.”
― Jason Schreier, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

“I feel like I'm a sim and someone is canceling the action where you give me a full explanation.”
― Hannah Grace

“This is not an expedition. It is an execution. When they put you in here, they don’t want you to return. And even if you do, and even if they keep their promises… what freedom waits for you? A few dying ships in a sea of dead stars?

If there is still hope, it lies beyond the veil. Hope in this void is as illusionary as the starlight. I will choose to breathe my last at the bottom of an ocean, unseen, unheard, and uncontrolled.

They will get their execution.

I will get my freedom.”
― David Szymanski

“They sat there, the air like ice, Everleigh's Ayane wig When I'm older, I'm gonna dye it purple for real!) and Maura's Super Mario mask (I can't breathe in this thing!) cast aside, eating ever one of their collective peanut butter cups. It felt indulgent. Fun. They licked the chocolate from their fingertips. They threw the paper cups across the floor. They feasted. And then there was just one package left, a full-sized score, two final cups inside. They lifted them, and then, as if they were older, an age Everleigh would never live to see, they clinked them together like glasses of champagne, dinging the chocolate, a toast to themselves.
"Let's do this every year," Everleigh declared.
"I'm in," Maura agreed, mouth full.
"I mean it! Promise. As long as one of us wants to go."
"Of course we will. Always."
It was the happiest they'd ever been.”
― Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste