“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“That's the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it's in their nature.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”
― Winter
― Winter
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
Karin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Karin
Lists liked by Karin



























