Quotes from book

The Serpent's Shadow

“A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon.
I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather.
“Really?” I yelled.
Horus didn’t answer”

“I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.”

“For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.”

“A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.”

“Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.”

“So let me get this straight,” Carter said. “The two guys you liked—one who was dying and one who was off-limits because he’s a god—are now one guy, who isn’t dying and isn’t off-limits. And you’re complaining.”

“What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?”

“Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.”

“Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.”

“Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.”

“Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.”

“If I were a flowerpot, I would've checked my hair.

~Carter Kane”

“I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon.

~Carter Kane”

“Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.”

“How do I defeat Apophis?”
“I’m so glad you asked!” Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. “Unfortunately, I can’t tell you.”
I glanced at Walt. “Do you want to kill him, or should I?”

“Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.”

“I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.”

“And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this… this--'

'School?”

“If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!”