Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"لعل ذلك كان أيضاً لأن أيدينا تلاقت في لحظة ما من الفيلم. وحين شعرت بإصبع مايكل الأوسط يداعب باطن كفي، سرت قشعريرة في عمودي الفقري، وسرعان ما بدأت أصابع يدي اليمنى تستكشف يده اليسرى، وتناوبنا على تتبع منحنيات أيدي بعضنا البعض."
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"That could also be because at one point during the film, our hands found each other. And when I felt Michael's middle finger caress the inside of my palm, it sent a tickle up my spine, and the fingers of my right hand were soon exploring his left hand, and we each took turns tracing the contours of the other's hands."
"لعل ذلك كان أيضاً لأن أيدينا تلاقت في لحظة ما من الفيلم. وحين شعرت بإصبع مايكل الأوسط يداعب باطن كفي، سرت قشعريرة في عمودي الفقري، وسرعان ما بدأت أصابع يدي اليمنى تستكشف يده اليسرى، وتناوبنا على تتبع منحنيات أيدي بعضنا البعض."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me)."
"والمفارقة أنه كلما أبعدني مايكل عنه، ازداد ثقتي به – ربما لأنه كان دائمًا على استعداد لمساعدتي بالنصائح والتعريفات، رغم أنه لم يكن يريد مني شيئًا على الإطلاق (ولم يبادل فضولي بأسئلة شخصية تخصه)."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"It's bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and - next thing you know - it seems as if there's some intense connection with the person - or at least you feel that closeness and hope it's mutual"
"يُحيّرني كيف يتسنى للمرء أن يشرع في محادثة هكذا فحسب مع غريب لا يعرفه البتة عبر فيسبوك، ثم، وقبل أن تدري، يبدو وكأن صلة وطيدة قد نشأت بينك وبين ذلك الشخص، أو على الأقل تحس بتلك الألفة وتأمل أن يكون الشعور متبادلاً."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"With the music of our singing in the background, I looked at the church candles and thought about the surreal connection between images and memory. The peaceful and joyous candles flickering there during the Christmas ceremony projected warmth, comfort, and familiarity – even though thy emitted the same kind of fiery energy as the flames caused by the war."
"مع موسيقى غنائنا في الخلفية، نظرت إلى شموع الكنيسة وتأملت في الصلة السريالية بين الصور والذاكرة. كانت الشموع الهادئة والمبهجة المتلألئة هناك خلال احتفال عيد الميلاد تبعث الدفء والراحة والألفة – على الرغم من أنها كانت تصدر نفس النوع من الطاقة النارية التي تسببها نيران الحرب."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"So if you choose me, then you have declared me more special to you than anyone else, because only one man can have that honor."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Indeed, wounded loved can make for fierce vengeance. And, from what I know of Anissa, it does seem a bit out of character for her to behave so spitefully, so I'd like to think that she really is just deeply hurt, angry and looking for some way to injure me back... I hope she knows how well she's succeeded."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"They truly embodied goodness and generosity – like angels sent to save me in my hour of greatest need. Mohammed had risked everything to keep a promise to my father. He and his family saved not only my life, but also my faith in others."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"And you never fall behind?”“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"You have to take this with you too,” she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. “My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative – the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)"
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they’re true.” "Something like that,” I conceded uneasily."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?"
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence,” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
"I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is."
Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
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