5 Quotes by Robert Olmstead

They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way- off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound the way dog heard sound. They were like the moon- they changed every eight days.

this cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat.

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...

Our souls have been suffering in a kind of darkness.

He thought with all these men dead fighting war, it must be that war was winning.