Garrett Earley

“He would find consolation in the reminder that all flesh was as grass, that in the end all our striving came to nothing, but that in that brief aching and vivid time that we call life, one must do all that was possible to protect, conserve, and nurture this phenomenon of life.”
― Una McCormack, The Last Best Hope

“The only men who find pleasure in a war are the ones who get to decide that we have one.”
― Michael Farris Smith, Nick

“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Her hair, full of a heavenly glamour, was gay against the winter color of the room.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned