The Midwife of Berlin Quotes

“It won’t be forever. Just until the world sees sense and the wall comes down. It will, you know. It will fall just as Auschwitz fell. Evil cannot endure, not while good people resist it.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“It was a strange thought. She would have a new name, a new family. Bonds didn’t, after all, need to be carved out of blood and there could, surely, be no such thing as too many people to love?”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“They’re oak leaves,’ she said. ‘Strong and vibrant – just like you.’ He stared down at it and she thought perhaps she’d misjudged him and felt slightly sick but then he looked up, eyes shining. ‘I love it. I never thought… Isn’t it amazing, that I get to wear a symbol of your love too?’ He did like it!”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“Don’t give up on it, Olivia. You believe in socialism, I know you do.’ ‘I did,’ she said wearily. ‘I thought it was worth suffering in the present for a better future, but our leaders aren’t suffering, are they? They aren’t buying their clothes in Konsum. They aren’t sitting at state-approved tables, eating state-approved food so that everyone can live in safety, warmth and good health. They’re just happily taking all the wealth for themselves – like the worst of capitalists.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“She would do. You don’t become a subversive without being a fantastic actor.’ Olivia supposed that was true, but even so… ‘They took her baby away.’ ‘Ah. That would be hard. But should the baby be punished too?’ ‘The baby was punished. It lost its mother.’ ‘And gained a better one, a proper socialist one.’ Olivia shook her head. It felt fugged again, confused. ‘That’s what the Nazis said to my mother when they took her baby.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“His hand creeps round her waist, pulling her close and stroking her stomach. It is flat yet, except to the two of them who know there is a new life growing within.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“Fathers are more than simply seed. Fathers are people who care for you and keep you safe and bring you up.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“Breathe, Claudia, like this – in through the nose, out through the mouth. Good. Work with the pain, my dear. This is simply your body opening up to let Baby out. Breathe, that’s it, that’s wonderful.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“Hope is the greatest pain but also the greatest strength.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin

“Staying golden was, she was now certain, their only chance of survival behind the tall, dark, deceitful Berlin wall.”
― Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Berlin