54 books
—
107 voters
“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“I think,” Juna says after a pause, “that the thing about losing someone isn’t the loss but the absence of afterwards. D’you know what I mean? The endlessness of that.” She looks sideways at me and sniffs. “My friends were sad, people who knew my sister were sad, but everyone moves on after a month. It’s all they can manage. It doesn’t mean they weren’t sad, just that things keep going or something, I don’t know.” She rolls her shoulder, shakes her head. “It’s hard when you look up and realise that everyone’s moved off and left you in that place by yourself. Like they’ve all gone on and you’re there still, holding on to this person you’re supposed to let go of.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“Those were some of the best times of my life...traveling to another dimension where I was...me. And not just a boy but a man, a man who could fall in love and be loved back. Why do we lose that ability? To create a whole world? A bunk bed was a kingdom, I was a boy.”
― Pageboy
― Pageboy
“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
EldritchPluto’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at EldritchPluto’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by EldritchPluto
Lists liked by EldritchPluto
























































