Quotes of: West-side Keyword

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred

That night when we made love, she saw a side of me she’d never seen—the left side.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.

Living Dead in Dallas

You’ve got a good side?” “I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.

The Mercedes Coffin

The conversation was one-sided. She was doing all the talking, and every time I opened my mouth it wasn’t to reply—it was to yawn.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

Let's face it -- if I could scrap in a full-length bodysuit, I would.

Snippets: Mostly True Tales from the Lighter Side of Scrapbooking

We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.

Once

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

The Other Side of the Story

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

The Other Side of the Story

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

Outside In

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

Possible Side Effects

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

This Side of Paradise

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

This Side of Paradise

The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe.

This Side of a Wilderness

This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.

This Side of a Wilderness

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Middlemarch

Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

Roger Lowenstein

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

Sheryl Lee

The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'

Timothy Noah

Teddy didn't really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their own.

Kate Atkinson