Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station Quotes

“...why doesn't anything end happily?"
"Because," said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, "there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“She wondered what archaeologists in the year A.D. 10,000 would find when they uncovered the relics of the twentieth century; would there, she wondered, be any signs of intelligence remaining? or only vestiges of folly and violence?”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“Judge Dee mystery novels,”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“The people still waited with infinite patience for the democracy that had been promised them”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“He thought wryly of the current political metaphor, “the two ends are hot and the middle is cold,” a very Chinese way of saying that change was passionately wanted at both the top and the bottom of the society, but sitting squarely in the middle in many areas were Mao’s bureaucrats, threatened by the progressive changes, indignant, clinging in fury to the old status quo.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

“and wished with all her heart that she wasn’t so tired, wished that a broken wrist would radiate violent pain instead of this strange numbing ache that was exhausting her by its subtlety and consistency.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station