Call the Midwife (TV Series)

Christmas Special (2019)

Helen George: Nurse Trixie Franklin

Quotes 

• Nurse Trixie Franklin : [sitting in the dreary St. Faelan's Youth Hostel]  Whoo, I'm sorry, but this is a completely dreadful way to convalesce. We're all dressed up as if we've burgled a jumble sale.

  [they all laugh] 

  Nurse Trixie Franklin : And now we're peeling our own potatoes!

  Nurse Lucille Anderson : With absolutely no way of turning them into chips. May the Lord forgive me, but right now I'd kill for three pennyworth of chips and a saveloy.

  Nurse Valerie Dyer : Ey, have we turned you into a Cockney on the quiet?

  [they all smirk] 

  Nurse Lucille Anderson : I'd like to think so.

  Nurse Valerie Dyer : [referring to some local women's narrow-minded attitude toward Lucile's obvious foreign background]  Lucile, I heard what that woman said to you in the clinic today, uh...

  Nurse Lucille Anderson : It happens all the time at home, I'm almost used to it. But people like them aren't used to people like me; and I can't hate them for it, because I come from an island too.

  Nurse Trixie Franklin : Not an island like this.

  Nurse Lucille Anderson : [she laughs]  Hah, all islands are like this. All islands have a boundary, and ya live your life within it and ya love it or ya break out and make a life elsewhere. And on every island in the world, no matter how magnificent, there are those who cannot leave and those who cannot stay; and I was one of those who could not stay.

  [Valerie and Trixie smile understandingly]