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"So what choice do I have? This is my world too. I was here before the humani, I gave them fire and language. I'll not abandon them now.” -Dora

"Scatty stepped closer to Flamel. They had known each other for over three hundred years, and although she was his senior by nearly two millennia, she had come to regard him as the father she no longer remembered.”

“I know you are afraid, but try not to be. Let me tell you, there is no shame in fear." -Nicholas Flamel

“The dead particularly liked bathrooms-it was a perfect location for them: quiet and still, with lots of reflective surfaces.”

Hanako??

“ I know where Bastet sleeps.”

If Bastet is evil in this book ima be so sad since she was such a great character in the Kane Chronicles 😭😭

“As with so much of the communication between them, there was no need for words.With their parents away so much, Sophie and Josh had learned from a very early age that they could only really depend on themselves. Moving from school to school, neighborhood to neighborhood, they often found it difficult to make and keep friends, but they knew that whatever happened, they would always have each other.”

“Perry would have no such compunction, he knew, but he had been an al-chemyst for far too long: he was dedicated to preserving life, not destroying it. The rats were under Dee's control. The poor creatures were probably terrified... though that would not stop them from eating him.” -Nicholas

"I think that perhaps gas escaped into the shop," Nick suggested cautiously, "and what we've all experienced and seen is nothing more than a series of hallucinations." He stopped, looking at Sophie and Josh in turn.
"Lame," Josh said finally.
"Very lame," Sophie agreed.
Nick shrugged. "Actually, I thought it was a pretty good explanation.”