The Reluctant Midwife Quotes

“I never touched a brown hand before today, but my daddy told me that there isn’t no difference. He said we’re all the same under the skin, same blood, same heart.”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“We think our problems are so big, but the universe is so much bigger and everyone on this planet has problems; it’s part of being alive.”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“The important thing is to have hope, not to give up even in the face of despair.”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“wood and I found the two-person saw under the porch. Thanks for thinking of us. Do you want to come in? I don’t have any coffee or anything.” “That’s okay. Put on the water. I brought you a jar of peppermint leaves I dried last fall. We can have tea.” Patience follows me through the blue door with her little boy and gives him his red metal fire truck to play with. “Oh, the house looks so pretty. Do you have everything you need? Is there anything more I could lend you?” “No,”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“Mother, I think. Mother is about love. It doesn’t mean the one who gives birth. It is the one who braids your hair. Communion”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“The moment a new person enters the world, everything changes. Everyone must move over to make room, every person, every rock, every tree, every star, and the midwife is privileged to witness the miracle.”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“as we stand in the narrow dark hallway.”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“We all have hard lives, Becky. Don’t you know that? Sometimes you just have to take your wounded heart out, stitch it up, stuff it back in your chest, and go on. . . .”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife

“the homeless men down by the river, and I’m suddenly embarrassed. I hadn’t given any recent thought to how we’re dressed when we’re out on the farm because we don’t usually get company. “Be right back,” I say to cover my discomfort, then I lead Blum into the house and sit him on the davenport. “Stay.” Returning, I find the wood almost all stacked in a”
― Patricia Harman, The Reluctant Midwife