How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
When you only see each other twice a year, it's like you're distant cousins rather than siblings. We had absolutely nothing in common except our parents. (1.47)
This is how Sadie and Carter start out in the book: alienated from each other and not really knowing how to connect or care about one another. Little do they know that soon their lives will depend on each other… mwahaha. Is that how family works in general?
Quote #2
Nut shrugged. "Set has always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family… is it not?" (20.49)
The Egyptian gods have had some pretty bitter quarrels over the millennia, but Nut sums it up here: they're all still family. Do you agree with her? Is family always family, no matter what?
Quote #3
As much as Carter annoyed me, I hated it when people assumed we weren't related, or looked at my father askance when he said the three of us were a family—like we'd done something wrong…It happened every time Dad and Carter and I were together. Every bloody time. (3.68)
Being a mixed-race family is no bed of roses, especially when other people's racism prevents them from acknowledging that such families even exist. It's all the more striking when Sadie acknowledges this, because she thinks that a) Carter is a useless jumble of homeschooling and facts about ancient Egypt, and b) she's normally too much of a rebel to be bothered by what other people think of her.