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Robert Olmstead Quotes

born 1954 United States

Robert Olmstead (born January 3, 1954) is an award-winning American novelist and educator.

United States
Educators
Novelists

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Though he had never smelled the death of men before, he knew the smell as if it were a knowledge born into him.

Coal Black Horse (2007)

Tonight he was too tired to hate and hoped in the morning when he was rested he would hate again.

Coal Black Horse (2007)

A person can get used to just about anything if it happens slow enough.

Coal Black Horse (2007)

He decided from that day forever after that there must live a heartless God to let such despair be visited on the earth, or as his father said, a God too tired and no longer capable of doing the work required of him.

Coal Black Horse (2007)

He had experienced the horror that leaves you calm and unafraid, but for her something inside was broken and he did not know if it could be mended. Her life, her horror, he could not tell.

Coal Black Horse (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Olmstead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.