Say Something Quotes

“he’d been relegated to being chained in a back yard, neglected, unappreciated. He could’ve turned out mean or scared. But he hadn’t. He’d chosen love over hate, courage over fear, loyalty over mistrust. Made you wonder how many dogs there were just like him, all that love and maybe even some instinct going to waste because the humans were either too stupid, busy, or selfish to notice.”
― N. Gemini Sasson, Say Something

“Love — especially a dog’s love — can change a person. Not yet sixteen, Bellamy Larson — or Beam, as she’d rather be called — remembers everything. Truthfully, there’s a lot she’d just rather forget. Beam never knew her father and doesn’t ever want to. Her little brother died while saving her. And her mother self-medicates, leaving Beam to fend for herself. Desperate for a normal life, Beam carjacks a rusty pickup and drives south to live with her grandparents in Faderville, Kentucky. Unfortunately, as Beam soon figures out, ‘normal’ doesn’t exist. She could use a friend, but friends are hard to come by when you’re an outsider. Buzz Donovan knows what it’s like to live on the outside. Luckily for him, he has a friend — a dog named Hush. It’s because of Hush, though, that Buzz is homeless. But that’s his choice, because if it weren’t for Hush, he’d be dead. When Beam runs into Buzz, her world is turned upside down. She doesn’t trust dogs, and for good reason — she’s been mauled by one.”
― N. Gemini Sasson, Say Something

“Family, I’d concluded, was not defined by blood, but by acts of love.”
― N. Gemini Sasson, Say Something

“Life was seldom fair. Kindness was sometimes met with cruelty. Karma often failed to even the scales. The only revenge he could muster, ultimately, was to live with peace in his heart. And he had. For although he had little control over how others treated him and often none over what life dealt him, he could choose how to react to mistreatment and adversity. He’d started out on his journey as a means of honoring his son. It had turned into so much more. He’d seen fantastic sights and spoken to people whose stories were sometimes heartrending and at other times inspirational. If he’d never decided to take Patrick’s ashes to Chincoteague, he would never have met Beam. And Hush’s future would have been uncertain. Everything was as it should be. Despite all his fears and doubts, all the sadness and every injustice, everything would be all right.”
― N. Gemini Sasson, Say Something