John Green

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Readers resonse

My book is titled "Cut" it is about a young girl suffering from many mental illnesses that cause her to think of her life as a waste. As she cuts herself to find any relief from people, she is sent to a home for the mentally ill. She feels like even an outcast there because most of the other girls there are suffering from anorexia or bulimia and not something as simple as depression. At first she is hesitant to go forward with treatment feeling as if she is being pressured and it won't accomplish anything; but throughout the chapters she is taught to love herself and to recover without any more fits of self harm. But without the help of her friends in the mental illness hospital then she could never  have recovered so easily. Now this book reminds me a lot of my younger sister lindsey; last september my sister attempted suicide and was put in lakeland for almost a month in hopes that she would recover and not think any bad thoughts about her life anymore. While my sister was in there she learned to love herself and not to think about things so negativly and I feel like thats what happened with the main character in my book.

Monday, August 26, 2013

25 Things about me

1. My name is Taylor  Marie Penland
2. I'm Welsh, Native American and German.
3. I have a dog named wookie
4. I have a fish tank full of fish
5. My dad was a police officer.
6. My mom is a dental assistant.
7. I have been with my boyfriend for two years.
8. I love reading as long as its a book that I want to read.
9. But it's really difficult for me to find books that I enjoy
10. My parents are divorced.
11. My bestfriend is my sister,
12. I'm a competitive swimmer.
13. I like doing makeup a lot.
14. I can't decide if I want to nurse or get into law enforcement as a career.
15. My room is pink
16. My favorite color is teal/turquoise
17. I love art.
18. I've been to eight different countries
19. I am really bad at math
20. But I like chemistry.
21. I have lots of animals.
22. I have a gold BMW
23. I am a junior
24. My favorite book will always be Harry Potter
25. My favorite teacher was my 4th/5th grade teacher Mr. Post.