The Midwife of Hope River Quotes

“No matter who they are or what they’ve done, when you hear someone’s story you see him or her differently.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“Grief takes about a year,” Mrs. Kelly once told a young mother who had lost her son. “You have to get through each holiday, each new season. You will cry at Christmas and New Year’s and Mother’s Day and Thanksgiving. You will suffer with the first daffodil, the first falling red leaves, the first snow . . . Each occasion, each new season will rip your heart out; then, when there’s nothing left, you’ll get better.” She was right, and she knew from experience.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“It’s funny how beauty rides the back of pain . ”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“Midwives aren't soft. We're warriors.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“At any minute your life can change. Remember this. Between one breath and another, the song can stop and everything can be different.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“We are only on this earth, as far as we know, one time, and we deserve to be happy. It’s our job to be happy.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“Most of my life I’ve felt was dreaming. Now and then I wake up, sometimes for months, sometimes for minutes. Tonight I’m awake, and I lie thinking about the recent events and the people whose lives have crossed mine like veins in an old woman’s hands. Their faces float past…the twisted and the lame...the strong…the loving…for we are all twisted and lame, strong and loving.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“Most of my life I’ve felt I was dreaming. Now and then I wake up, sometimes for months, sometimes for minutes. I’m a character in a play, and I can’t tell if I’m making it up or if a great puppeteer is making me dance.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“I called Nora “Nora” because she was thirty-four, more like a girl, though now that I’m thirty-six, I don’t feel at all girlish.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“The rain starts up again, slashing the”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“straight across his chin.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“But I don’t have the five dollars”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“At any minute your life can change. Remember this. Between one breath and another, the song can stop and everything can be different.” Later”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“you have extra rooms. I’ve studied it out.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River

“Mennessäni muualle muutun taas omaksi itsekseni. Murheeni ei häviä, mutta näen sen oikeassa perspektiivissä.”
― Patricia Harman, The Midwife of Hope River