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“Hama today is nearly without men. There are only women and old people. My sister calls it “the Widow City.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

“If you think I am wrong, I am wrong for all the right reasons.
Dealing with death on a regular basis makes you shallow inside. Your soul sleeps inside your chest, pleading to be woken up. In those dark times in a battle, one bad moment, a step on a mine, a bullet on target, or a lethal explosion, and you are a dismembered lifeless memory. Your dead flesh lays on the hot sand which burns your bare skin if you are unlucky enough not to be numb.”
― Swaraj Bhatia, Our Days :A Survival Odyssey

“There’s nothing to protect us. No state, no government, no law, no human rights. Animals have more rights than we do.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

“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.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria