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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The sharp-faced woman who sold it to her had pointed out that Rowas was too muscled to wear such a dress, that her shoulders were too broad. The silk felt luxurious against her skin, however, so much different from the leather and metal she was used to. So she had bought it despite the woman, though she had never once had the occasion to wear it since.
She regretted wearing it now, and regretted coming, yet as she stood there in the darkness, she found she could not will herself to move.”
― David Gaider, The Stolen Throne

“The demo version of Novel Haven is ready: The world I've been escaping to on a daily basis for the last two years, the world that means everything to me. The world that takes the pressure off and heals the wounds of my past, one line of code at a time.”
― Anabelle Stehl, Levels of Love

“I queue up behind him and let my gaze wander across the room, which is based on the lighthouse in Novel Haven: warm colors, nautical decor, and a bookshelf sponsored by Notting Hill Bookshop, which takes up the ground floor of our office building. It exudes all the calm and coziness that we want people out there to experience in our game. And the game itself shows a lot of my inner world that never had an outlet before.
This office, like Novel Haven, has become a sort of home for me. A refuge in a world that excludes me more than it accepts me. And that’s the exact reason why I don’t care about the bags under my eyes or my weird sleep schedule. Because if I can offer even one person the kind of refuge that once helped me, it will all have been worth it.”
― Anabelle Stehl, Levels of Love

“The next few minutes disappear in a vortex of numbers and code as the cute pixel graphics that Aria created make their way from the screen on my left into the game. Since Aria can’t have a pet in real life, she’s convinced us to add a bigger selection of animals to the game. Now players can adopt not only a dog, a cat, and a guinea pig but also a turtle, a bird, and…
“What on earth?” I murmur as my eyes fall on a folder of capybara graphics. Novel Haven isn’t set in a real country, but the surroundings and the climate are supposed to look like South America.”
― Anabelle Stehl, Levels of Love

“Try unlocking uncharted areas—It’s worth it!
You’ll find materials and collectibles there that
you can use to expand your bookshop.”
― Anabelle Stehl, Levels of Love