Terri Riffle

“For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

“We all tell you to move forward, but where exactly is forward? There’s no other place we can go. To face the past is to momentarily turn your back on what is now. And when you do that, you miss so damn much.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“first question the Levite and the priest asked when they saw the wounded man was ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ The Good Samaritan reversed the question. ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’ . . . That is the question before you tonight.”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith