25 Quotes by Wendy Pearlman

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we’re famous for killing.

Every lawyer told me, “We’ll get him out.” But they were just lying so I would keep paying them.

The regime has turned us into monsters so it can justify killing us by saying that it’s fighting monsters... I imagine this man who loses his kids- the one thing that defines his future. I completely understand if he turns into a monster. But even a monster has hope. He hopes that someday he’ll go back to being a normal human being.

Just because you’re fighting evil doesn’t mean you’re good. And just because you’re doing evil doesn’t mean you’re bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It’s all shades of gray.

I swear, in Syria nobody used to ask whether you’re Muslim or Christian. We had no idea what religion our friends were.

You can’t imagine how he died. His toenails were ripped out. His bones had been pierced with a drill. There were marks from being beaten and burned. His nose was beaten so severely that it was flat.

But I think I’m too old to dream now. In a month and a half, I’ll be twenty-nine.

Hama today is nearly without men. There are only women and old people. My sister calls it “the Widow City.

I can’t sleep without the sounds of bombs or bullets. It’s like something’s missing.