The Egypt Game Quotes

She'd started out just trying to get the old man to talk and then somehow, she couldn't quit. It was almost as if the old man's deadly silence was a dangerous dark hole that had to be filled up qui...

It would be neat if she turned out to be a real friend. There hadn't been any girls the right age in the Casa Rosada lately. To have a handy friend again, for spur-of-the-moment visiting, would be...

And one of the things they had in common, at that time, was a vague and mysterious fear of the old man called the Professor. (1.5)

It was a cracked and chipped plaster reproduction of the famous bust of Nefertiti. The two girls stared at it for a long breathless moment and then they turned to look at each other. They didn't sa...

There were dozens of children in the neighborhood; boys and girls of every size and style and color, some of whom could speak more than one language when they wanted to. But in their schools and on...

It had been years since the Professor had made any use of the area, and the weed-grown yard and open lean-to- shed were empty except for a few pieces of forgotten junk. But as the old man peered th...

The neighborhood surrounding the Professor's store was made up of inexpensive apartment houses, little family-owned shops, and small, aging homes. The people of the area, many of whom had some conn...

Nobody knew for sure what the A-Z meant. Perhaps it referred to the fact that all sorts of strange things—everything from A to Z—were sold in the store. Or perhaps it had something to do with t...

"...You see, I have this theory about how I was a high priestess once, in an earlier reincarnation. Do you think that's possible?" "Possible?" The old man's voice quavered the world into a whole fl...

She came because she had been sent away by Dorothea, her beautiful and glamorous mother, to live with a grandmother she hardly knew, and who wore her gray hair in a bun on the back of her head. (2.1)