How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"...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 flock of syllables. "Many things are possible." (2.28-29)
The nice thing about the Professor is that he doesn't discount April's more out-of-this-world theories as rubbish. Instead, he hears her out and encourages her imagination. And this is long before he becomes the nice, murder-catching, key-giving Professor at the end of the book.
Quote #2
There she was, waiting for them in the shed, Nefertiti, the beautiful queen of ancient Egypt, like a magical omen, or, as April put it, "a beautiful messenger from out of the ancient past." There had to be something terribly out-of-the-ordinary about it. (4.19)
Finding the bust of Nefertiti in the abandoned yard isn't just a strange coincidence to Melanie and April: it's more like a sign from the gods. After all, they've just been obsessing over all things ancient Egypt, and up pops the beautiful queen of that land in person. Well, in bust. But still.
Quote #3
But, actually, that was the way with all of the Egypt Game. Nobody ever planned it ahead, at least, not very far. Ideas began and grew and afterwards it was hard to remember just how. That was one of the mysterious and fascinating things about it. (5.23)
The Egypt Game carries its own kind of magic and wonder. The whole games seems effortless and comes to the children as though someone else has planted the ideas in their heads. Or at least, with the inspiration and spontaneity of a make-believe game.