Howard

“These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here”
― Émile Zola, Work

“How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!”
― Émile Zola, Lourdes

“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”
― Émile Zola, Truth

“The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.”
― Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale