Deonna Evertz

“Maybe it’s because people can’t see the end that they agree to begin.”
― Josh Malerman, Black Mad Wheel

“At the end of a workday I still had plenty of energy left to compete against Yank for the neighborhood girls. My secret weapon against Yank was my dancing. Most big men are clumsy and heavy-footed, but not me. I had a good sense of rhythm and I could move every part of my body. I had very fast hands, too, and good coordination. Swing music was sweeping the country and social dancing was all the rage. I went dancing six nights a week (never on a Sunday) to a different hall every night. That’s how you learned the dances. You learned by going dancing. They all had certain steps, unlike today where you just make it up as you go along. After the war, one of the jobs I had was a ballroom dance instructor. In”
― Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

“During an initial burst of pain, people tend to lash out either at others or at themselves, to turn the anger outward or inward.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― Amanda Lamb, Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs