Solacers Quotes

“I was the manifestation of my mother’s tears, prayers, and promises to her God, and of my own imagined probable future.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“Dirt and stones, trees, and grass do not make a land home. It is the people—the values, the ideals, the taxing and triumphs, the hopes and dreams, and the pleasant memories they share that make a place special. Home is where someone is always waiting on the other side of a door, happy to see you no matter how late or how often you ring the doorbell. I knew of no such place.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Hafez”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“Reading solaced my soul, nurtured my imagination, and enabled me to escape to all sorts of probable places.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“More than determination, however, I needed what I had always needed to attend school; an address.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“If I am not going to love someone, I am certainly not wasting my precious energy hating them.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“Hope and purpose are splendid nourishment for a wilted soul.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“Personality is human camouflage, an essential survival attribute, and I had learned to adjust mine to my surroundings and circumstances.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“I would smile and feel good knowing I too was some man’s son once, even though I could not remember the man’s face.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“The fertile planes of probabilities are not in the business of second-guessing what we do and do not want; in other words, they are tasked with taking whatever “seeds” escapes our head and turning them into reality, and putting them on our plate for us to experience.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers: A Memoir of Survival, Quiet Resilience, and the Search for Meaning

“When there is love, sharing the have-nots feels just as good as sharing the haves. We”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers

“In general, the lower segment of Iranian society often saw itself as a victim, a concept they seemed to not only enjoy but, in a twisted way, welcome. Victimhood meant martyrdom, and martyrdom was as good as an IOU from God. Being”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers

“Dragging God into their personal affairs was an excuse for many folks, like my mother, to wash their hands of their responsibilities and cover their incompetence.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers

“My grandfather always said happiness germinates more happiness, and misery germinates more misery.”
― Arion Golmakani, Solacers