# Quote — Robert Olmstead, Coal Black Horse

> Could this be what people were fighting over, the many possessions that surrounded him? These objects with so much value and so little use? He thought how the sweep of a hand or the lick of a flame and they would be broken and burned. Maybe it was the weak and the fragile and the beautiful that made you the craziest and made you fight the hardest.

- Author: [Robert Olmstead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-olmstead.md)
- Book: [Coal Black Horse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-olmstead/coal-black-horse.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-olmstead/coal-black-horse/could-this-be-what

## More from this book

> It was in these wounded days the beginning of the man he would grow to be. He bore his pain and endured his wound as if a sign he too had been blooded by the madness that’d taken ahold of the land. He no longer shied from people, from the lone riders, from the reenslaved herded South. He no longer feared their presence on the roads and his conversion was believable to him. He had lived and did not die. He was breathing. Still, it was only the beginning and he was not old enough to know these changes, did not even know enough to think this way yet.

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

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> 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.

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