The Pope's Assassin Quotes

“Someone who wants to believe must doubt first. Faith comes after doubt, not before. - Tarcisio Bertone”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“Once can, and should be, suspicious of assumptions. Just because a sinner says he has a gun pointed at the head of a confessor doesn’t mean it should be believed. Empirical proof is ncescessary, and the wooden screen between them does not allow for that.”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“How can I trust you?
You can’t. A person’s words are worth very little. Things are always changing. What works today doesnt work tomorrow. It’s human nature. - JC”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“..but remember that mourning is a selfish act. To weep for someone who dies is an offense to the life that he lived and we lived with him. - Hans Schmidt”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“Circumstances.
All of life is an accumulation of unknown and imponderable factors, uncontrollable and totally unforeseen, that can be summarized in that simple and powerful word: circumstances.”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“History never lies. Books that record it can relate what they understand: truths, lies, half-truths equivalent to lies, speculation, eulogies, historic acts that never happened. Glorious acts last because someone was paid to extol them. There’s no better example than Rome, the Eternal City, the glory of God on eart, where he chose to dwell, without doubt.”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“History tends to write itself with deep chisel marks that disappear only with the passage of time, dissolving in oblivious rain. Insignificant people will never be remembered on bronze plaques that record their birth, the place they lived, or their achievements. They remain only in the memory of those who lost them, until they, too, disappear under a forgotten gravestone.”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“Conversation between friends are continuous. Even if they are years apart, they always resume them, as if they had just seen each other only the day before.”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“Do you know that after all these centuries and millennia, everything we read in the Bible still has no archeological confirmation? - Jacopo”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin

“The Bible is the first historical, fantastic, science fiction, gospel, thriller, and romance novel since the beginning of the time. - Jacopo”
― Luis Miguel Rocha, The Pope's Assassin