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“It wasn't that Sarah didn't want to be her own person, it was just that she couldn't figure out how other people became specific like they were. She wasn't sure if everyone did this, if everyone's shared secret was that they mimicked fictional characters, or if this was a personality disorder she hadn't learned about in her college psych classes.”
― Sarahland
― Sarahland
“I tell Sasha about the boy I've now given two blow jobs to, only I don't phrase it like that, I say, hooked up with, and how I can barely find anything special about him to like, except that now he's not calling me I feel like I'm not special and want his attention. And I start thinking, well, he does have a really cute smile and he plays the guitar, which is cool, and he talks so little that he's probably secretly super smart.”
― Sarahland
― Sarahland
“Sarah didn't use a holder but she smoked out the window after gazing at her own reflection in her laptop's Photo Booth app and masturbating to it. Smoking and masturbating were Sarah's two favorite things. In the studio apartment for which she paid her very own rent, far away from the girls with the microwave popcorn and ignoring all calls from her own parents, she was beginning to accept this.”
― Sarahland
― Sarahland
“Sarah gazed at the story-girl in the mirror and immediately thought of that bananafish story from high school, the one about the ways materialism makes women selfish and therefore incapable of caring for their tortured bb boyfriends. This wasn't going to be that story—this was going to be a different story. Anyway, Sarah had no tortured bb boyfriend because she was, at the moment, riding the second wave and starting to believe in lesbianism as a moral imperative, and so it was fine if she was into herself and also materials.”
― Sarahland
― Sarahland
“I thought college would be exactly like summer camp, that there was a magic formula where you put a bunch of girls in an enclosed space without parents and we'd become Real. But, I deduced after major sleuthing, two factors were getting in the way: money and boys.
Neither existed at camp and here both were everywhere. The annual social we'd have with the nearby boys' camp was the worst day of the year: everyone unearthed makeup and flat-irons stowed under bunk beds for the other fifty-eight days of camp. Normally we spent our days and nights sailing and tie-dyeing towels and weaving macramé wall hangings and trying to get up on one water ski and singing along to Joni Mitchell and the Indigo Girls around a literal bonfire but suddenly on the day of the social we only cared about having the straightest hair and the clearest skin and someone was always being a cunt to her best friend and someone was always crying.”
― Sarahland
Neither existed at camp and here both were everywhere. The annual social we'd have with the nearby boys' camp was the worst day of the year: everyone unearthed makeup and flat-irons stowed under bunk beds for the other fifty-eight days of camp. Normally we spent our days and nights sailing and tie-dyeing towels and weaving macramé wall hangings and trying to get up on one water ski and singing along to Joni Mitchell and the Indigo Girls around a literal bonfire but suddenly on the day of the social we only cared about having the straightest hair and the clearest skin and someone was always being a cunt to her best friend and someone was always crying.”
― Sarahland
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