The author harks back to Puzo's original epigraph, from Balzac, that "behind every fortune lies a crime."

For fourteen years the knowledge that a fortune in gold was lying in Italy waiting to be picked up had been eating at him like a cancer.

Mr. Horvitz seems a talented man pulled in many directions and not quite decided where his fortunes lie.

"My heart and fortune, such as they are, already lie at your feet."

He meets an American girl, a socialite whose fortune lies frozen.

Our fortune lies Upon this jump.

"To be honest, I think my good fortune lies in having such an accomplished flirt for a father!"

Do not exceed The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies Upon this jump.

Great fortunes lie before you, and I believe that you and I shall meet again.

Whatever the changing fortunes of the Abbey, its sustaining strength lies in the treasure house of Irish writing that it helped to foster.