# Quote — Robert Olmstead, Coal Black Horse

> The old man told how he was now worthless and no good to anyone anymore because he was filled with despair, and despair was useless in times such as these. He told him to remain angry, because anger was more useful than despair and would deliver him. But to despair would surely lead to failure and tragedy.

- 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/the-old-man

## 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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