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Add a Quote"There's no rush, no relief. Just a keen, pulsing pain. I drop the pie plate and grasp my wrist with my other hand, dimly aware even as I'm doing it that it's something I've never done before. Never tried to stop the blood.."
“Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.”
Except on nights when the moon is full. On those nights, the hillside and the valley below are bathed in a magical white light, the glow of the perpetual snows that blanket the mountaintops. On those nights I lie restless in the sleeping loft, wondering what the world is like beyond my mountain home.”
"There's no rush, no relief. Just a keen, pulsing pain. I drop the pie plate and grasp my wrist with my other hand, dimly aware even as I'm doing it that it's something I've never done before. Never tried to stop the blood.."
“Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was that a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed up from under the edge of the blade. The line grew into a long, fat bubble, a lush crimson bubble that got bigger and bigger. I watched from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. When it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.”
ice a day we have Group. Group therapy, according to the brochure they give you at the admissions office, is the 'keystone of the treatment philosophy' here at Sick Minds. The real name of the place is Sea Pines, even though there is no sea and there are no pines. My roommate, Sydney, who has a nickname for everything, calls it Sick Minds. Her nickname for me is S. T, for silent treatment.... And this place is called a residential treatment facility. It is not called a loony bin."
Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside
“Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm.
A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade.The line grow into a long, Fat bubbel, A lush crimson bubbel that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.”
“I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.”
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Add Age Suitabilityred_cheetah_976 thinks this title is suitable for between the ages of 11 and 25
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Add a SummaryCallie is fifteen, and she does not want to speak. Not to her therapist, her parents, or even at first the other guests at Sea Pines. Sea Pines, a treatment center for young people with problems that are more serious then meets the eye. Callie, Self harms.. cutting her wrist and other parts of her body for relief.. but she doesn't understand why she started in the first place. As her story unravels, Callie realizes that all she needed was some support in the first place. All Callie needed was other peoples help, all Callie needed was to speak. With the support of everyone at Sea Pines, and finally the support of her family, Callie can finally recover and heal herself.
Callie is a fifteen-year-old girl who refuses to talk to anyone at the institute. She observes; she knows what will happen. She doesn't want anybody to know why she is there, until, that is, a girl named Amanda arrives. Then they all know. Callie isn't there for no reason. She's there because she cuts.
Fifteen-year-old Callie isn't speaking to anybody, not even to her therapist at Sea Pines (nicknamed "Sick Minds"), the residential treatment facility where her parents and doctor sent her after discovering that she self-mutilates. At some point, Callie does begin speaking to her therapist/doctor, and she helps Callie understand why she self-harms. As her story unfolds, Callie reluctantly becomes involved with the other "guests" at Sea Pines—finding her voice and confronting the trauma that triggered her behavior. Callie gets better with the help of Sydney (her roommate), Claire, Debbie, Becca, Tara, Amanda, and Tiffany. Only with the loving support of her family does she learn why she cuts herself.
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Add a Comment=~= I did not expect the ending to be like that
Could have been a great book if not for the pat, fairy-tale rescue ending.
I picked up this book because I suspect that one of my students is cutting themselves, and I want to get a better understanding of the underlying issues. I found this book compelling, with well developed characters, and a likable narrator. The ending was not a surprise, but did bring me to tears, and not many books do this to me.
This book caught my eye at my school for some reason and I felt like I should read it. I was reading the first several pages and wondered should I continue reading this book? I sucked it up and read the whole thing in one sitting and I can say I’m not really impressed with how the story laid out. The characters weren’t really developed well, the time exchanges were basically the same thing, and I’m not really pleased with the layout of the whole story. Don’t get me wrong there was a few good parts that I can bring up, but the book was still not really appealing to my eye after finishing
About a 13 yr old, white, teenage girl named Callie who gets sent to a ‘rehabilitation’ centre because she cuts herself. The reader gets to meet the other girls staying there and go with them through their healing processes. There are graphic scenes about how the girls cut themselves, but this isn’t a gratuitous novel about cutting. It delves deeper into the reasons why someone might cut themselves (or physically harm themselves), and makes human these girls who are misunderstood and may be seen as “freaks’ in society. Also deals with parent issues that many teens (and ex-teens!) can relate with (Callie’s dad never comes to visit her and her Mom doesn’t know how to talk about what’s happening). If you like this book, you may also enjoy "Kiss of Broken Glass" by Madeline Kuderick.
This is so well written!
I love this book. I have read it many times and would recommend it. It is sad, but has a happy ending.
Besides, most SI'ers would understand this novel, and it really connects. The words jump.
A book that makes you cry and laugh and think, all at once.
This book is great book. Its about a girl who has problems which is that she cuts herself. Her parents left in a mental hospitial so they can help her. I hope you enjoy this book.
I love this book! It was amazing and I loved the ending. (I cried) it was so amazing and wonderfully written