Mother, Nurse and Infant: A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard to Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-Birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart So Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.

“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip.”

— S. P. Sackett

“The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.””

— S. P. Sackett

“Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.””

— S. P. Sackett

“Oh girl, we have known littlebit love. That littlebit of honey left in an empty jar that traps the sweetness in your mouth long enough to mask your hunger. We have run tongues over teeth to savor that last littlebit as long as we could, and in all our living, nothing has starved us more.””

— S. P. Sackett

“Suffering pain is what made you a woman. Most of the milestones in a woman’s life were accompanied by pain, like her first time having sex or birthing a child. For men, it was all orgasms and champagne.””

— S. P. Sackett

“It was strange learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.””

— S. P. Sackett

“But we were girls once, which is to say, we have all loved an ain’t-shit man. No Christian way of putting it. There are two types of men in the world: men who are and men who ain’t about shit.””

— S. P. Sackett

“She wanted this baby and that was the difference: magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn't want was a haunting.””

— S. P. Sackett

“Maybe all women were shapeshifters, changing instantly depending on who was around.””

— S. P. Sackett