The Fisherman's Tomb Quotes

“The Vatican took no official notice of any kind of her death.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“Her constant half-smile reflected the amusement of a time traveler from a long-ago world at the folly of the present world to which she had somehow been transported.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“He was virtually a polyglot, fluently speaking at least seven languages.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“In the entire history of man, only two human institutions approach continuous existence and succession for more than two thousand years: the Japanese Imperial Succession and the papacy.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“The Jewish turncoat general Josephus,”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“God doesn’t care how much money you have when you die. God does care what you did with the money you had when you were alive.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“There were crudely drawn pictures of Christ and Peter bearing the partial inscription: “Peter pray Christ Jesus for the holy….” The remainder of the inscription was missing.82 These inscriptions, written in the middle of a second-century pagan cemetery in Rome, would have been the ancient world equivalent of Isis graffiti on the White House today, or a cross drawn on the Shrine of Khomeini in Teheran.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“The team was about to do a very hard job very badly.”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search

“Strake was among the largest single donors in the world to Catholic projects,”
― John O'Neill, The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search