Kimberly

“Very well!” he said. “You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust!” I’d never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber.
“All right,” I said uncertainly. “But won’t we be needing horses for that?”
“Not horses,” he replied, stepping away from his throne. “Birds.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged