A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax Quotes

“had the interesting experience once of meeting Hitler—” “Ah,” she breathed. He nodded. “He impressed me, madame—this man who sent millions of Jews to their death and changed the course of history—with his ordinariness. Success encouraged his madness, of course, but that was the thing, you see: he was so ordinary. This is what astonished and alarmed me, that evil can be so commonplace. It is not in the face or in the words but in the heart, in the intentions. In”
― Dorothy Gilman, A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

“quite the same as approving of it. She wondered, for instance, how Columbus or Magellan would react if they could see them all sitting in comfortable chairs watching a movie in the sky as they crossed the ocean insulated from wind, tides, storm and distance, and without any decent sense of awe. One ought, she felt, to suffer just a little. Not much but a little.”
― Dorothy Gilman, A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax