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The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2) QUOTES

The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2) QUOTES

1 " I have a flexible mind—I believe it’s one of the advantages of growing old,” she explained. “I find youth quite rigid at times. "

― Dorothy Gilman , The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2)

2 " Do you like Magda too?” His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. “She seems pleasant enough when she’s not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn’t she?” He "

― Dorothy Gilman , The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2)

3 " But we must find somewhere appropriate to leave Henry.” He groaned. “You look so extremely respectable, you know.” “I have a flexible mind—I believe it’s one of the advantages of growing old,” she explained. “I find youth quite rigid at times. Why not a cemetery?” Colin "

― Dorothy Gilman , The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2)

4 " As she stood transfixed the last notes of a muezzin’s chant reached her ears from below, sounding phantom in the high clear air, and Mrs. Pollifax thought, I must remember this moment, and then, I shall have to come back and really see this country. Yet she knew that if she did come back it would be entirely different. It was the unexpected that brought to these moments this tender, unnameable rush of understanding, this joy in being alive. It was safety following danger, it was food after hours of hunger, rest following exhaustion, it was the astonishing strangers who had become her friends. It was this and more, until the richness of living caught at her throat, and all the well-meant security with which people surrounded themselves was exposed for what it truly was: a wall to keep out life, a conceit, a mad delusion. "

― Dorothy Gilman , The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2)