The Complete Call the Midwife Stories Quotes

“Three Bs – Bullshit Baffles Brains,”
― Jennifer Worth, The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s

“Her constant phrase, "Go with God", had puzzled me a good deal. Suddenly it became clear. It was a revelation - acceptance ... Accept life, the world, Spirit, God, call it what you will, and all else will follow.”
― Jennifer Worth, The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s

“Do not ask me to immortalise the great Mystery of Life ... For beauty, look to the Psalms, to Isaiah, to St John of the Cross ... For truth, look to the Gospels ...”
― Jennifer Worth, The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s

“... and he lavished on her all the passion of youth, with the tenderness and consideration of maturity”
― Jennifer Worth, The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s

“Few men can withstand a woman's look of utter contempt”
― Jennifer Worth, The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s

“Her father coughed uncontrollably and brought up copious amounts of frothy fluid, streaked with thick ropes of greenish phlegm. ‘You will feel better after this,’ said Sister Evangelina to the sick man. ‘Now come here, Miss Masterton. You have a go.”
― Jennifer Worth, The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s