Garrett Earley

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

“For a time she had no accurate sense of her whereabouts or of the events of the day before, or the day before that; then, like a suspended pendulum, memory began to beat out its story, releasing with each swing a burdened quota of time until her life was given back to her.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It turns out, however, that freedom of expression sometimes presents a greater threat to an idea, because forbidden thoughts may circulate in secret, but what can be done when an important fact is lost in a flood of impostors, and the voice of truth becomes drowned out in an ungodly din? When that voice, though freely resounding, cannot be heard, because the technologies of information have led to a situation in which one can receive best the message of him who shouts the loudest, even when the most falsely?”
― Stanisław Lem, His Master's Voice

“There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway," interrupted
Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply. "That there's no lesson to be learned from life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned