Shirley Baker

“Maybe laughter after someone dies is the way we tell ourselves that they are still alive in some way. Or that we are.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

“Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky. ”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie