“After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.”

“...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”

“Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?”

“such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,”

“Weigh each heart on its own," I shouted, "for how many of us would pass into the Afterlife if Osiris weighed our hearts with those of our akhu?”

“I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau”

“But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.”