The Quest Quotes

“Credo quia impossibile.’ I believe it because it is impossible.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“Amicitia sine fraude—to friendship without deceit.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“From the unknown, through the unknown, to the unknown. Put your hand into the hand of God. It will be all right.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. All roads lead to Rome.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“the places that once held good memories were best left as memories.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest: A Novel

“can’t be lost if we don’t know where we’re going.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“gut – like the priest’s mortal wound – to make him write well. His current assignment for UPI was to do a series”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“you might”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“The hotel demanded hard currency, which kept out the riffraff and the Reds.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“For a writer, a journey of a thousand miles begins in a library and ends at the typewriter.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“...."When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a knownew way.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“Henry Mercado, Purcell knew, was comforted by thinking he was protecting the Holy Grail from the Antichrist, or whatever, and he could go to his martyrdom happy in the knowledge that when he met Jesus he could say, 'I saved your cup.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“As he’d thought, and as he’d always known, Henry and Vivian were better suited for each other. But better is not best, and though he was angry— and hurt— he was also concerned about Vivian. He still liked Henry, but not as much as Henry liked himself. He would have told Vivian this— as a friend— but she might think it was coming from a jealous ex-lover. So he wasn’t going to say anything now.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“We are finding it- first in our heads, then in our hearts." He reminded Purcell. "This is a spiritual journey before it becomes a physical journey.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest

“There’s hell, there’s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!”
― Nelson DeMille, The Quest