“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 15.

Source: The Complete Short Stories

Quoted in "The Burning Tigris: the Armenian Genocide and America's response" - Page 157 - by Peter Balakian - History - 2003

Notebooks
Quoted, Notebooks

Orolo and Raz, Part 4, "Anathem"
Anathem (2008)

Somebody to Love? (1998)
Context: Janis knew more than I did about "how it was", but she lacked enough armor for the inevitable hassles. She was open and spontaneous enough to get her heart trampled with a regularity that took me thirty years to experience or understand. On the various occasions when we were together, she seemed to be holding in something she thought I might not want to hear, like older people do when they hear kids they love saying with absolute youthful confidence, "Oh, that'll never happen to me." Sometimes you know you can't tell them how it is, they have to find out for themselves. Janis felt like an old soul, a wisecracking grandmother whom everybody loved to visit. When I was with her, I often felt like a part of her distant family, a young upstart relative who was still too full of her own sophistry to hear wisdom.
Did we compliment each other? Yes, but not often enough.

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

2010-, Never Sorry, 2012