The Midwife Quotes

“She wondered what a newborn felt as it was expelled from the only home it had ever known, pulled from a place of comfort and security into a world that was bright and vast and unknown. Perhaps it was a blessing that no one ever remembered what those first few moments, hours and days felt like”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“You can't ever run away, though, not really. The past travels with you”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“Revenge had intoxicated her, violence becoming a part of who she was. It was easy to disguise for someone who was able to wear a mask of respectability”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“She had always hated these lonely hours, having found out at too young an age the way all bad things become even more sinister and threatening after midnight”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“Perhaps being a liar made it easier to spot the same trait in others, an invisible bond that acted as a magnetic field between culprits”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“She had thought her isolation could remain permanent, but what if the very thing that had protected her was what would keep her lonely?”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“Peter's eyes met hers, but he said nothing. He didn't need to. She realised the irony. In so many ways, she too had been living a lie. Wasn't everyone, in one way or another?”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“First Lines - Chapter One - The Mother:

"It seemed strange to Lauren that she should feel alone now, and yet she felt it acutely, this suffocating sense of being separate from the rest of the room”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife

“Prologue: -
"The woman and the girl sat together on the sofa in the living room, the lighting muted to just the lamp on the side table, the late night shut out by the closed curtains”
― Victoria Jenkins, The Midwife