16 Quotes by A.A. Attanasio

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

The madness of demons is rage – the madness of angels – hope.

Ricardo Pinto’s The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

Einstein’s claim that change is an illusion. Things do not become, they have not been, and they will not be: They simply are.

The power of the witch is in her hair. The ones who killed her knew this. They cut off her long tresses, tied them into devil’s shoelaces, and bound her hands and feet.

The fact of that devotion is nothing less than sacrifice. The only good of which mortals are capable of love. To even begin to do good, one must be willing to go beyond oneself. All things made by man perish. All words scatter into the emptiness that is the future. Only love endures. Love for what is. Not for what was or could be. Love for what is – that alone is true love. That alone the future cannot dissolve. For that love is God.

You are consciousness itself – not the objects of consciousness. They used clear-color prisms and waterdrums to help him relax. You have a body, but you are not your body. You are the awareness of your body. You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts. You have feelings, but you are not they. Who are you?