The Mummy

“when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us”

“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions”

“The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all the wonders of this brave new century should draw me from my grief and yet I can not heal my heart; and so the mind suffers; the mind closes as if it were a flower without sun”

“The horror was, Cleopatra meant something to these modern people of the twentieth century which was altogether wrong. She had become a symbol of licentiousness, when in fact she had possessed a multitude of amazing talents. They had punished her for her one flaw by forgetting everything else…Remembered, but not for what she was. A painted whore lying on a silken couch. - Ramses”

“You haven’t found all the answers yet. Electricity, telephones, these are lovely magic. But the poor go unfed. Men kill for what they cannot gain by their own labour. How to share the magic, the riches, the secrets, that is still the problem.”

“Grief, she thought. It’s a strange and a misunderstood emotion.”

“Be Warned: I sleep as the earth sleeps beneath the night sky or the winter’s snow; and once awakened, I am servant to no man.”

“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine”

“This was that lucid and dangerous state with drinking, when everything began to shimmer; when there was meaning in the grain of the marble; when one could make the most offensive speeches.”

“She felt herself turning inward, away from all of it, back into the darkness, into the dark water whence she’d come.”

“When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires—what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us”

“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning. Do you think the hereafter could be like that?”

“Ah, yes, beautiful English bones.”

“Cowards can be more dangerous than brave men, Julie,” he said.”

“It was so simple to smile at him; he deserved one’s tenderest smile.”

“I found her irresistible, as I found you irresistible. It was the mystery. I wanted to seize it. Move into it. Besides…”“Yes.”“She was…a living thing. A being in pain.”

“Lying is actually an underated social skill. Some clever person should write a polite guide to lying. And all the charitable principles which justifiy lying so well.”

“You’ve learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.”

“If one cannot be immortal, one should at least be young,”

“Ah, the nipples of men, so tender; such a key to torment and ecstacy; how he writhed as she twisted then ever so gently, her tongue daring in and out of his mouth.”

“The man just stood there, looking at him; and Elliott had the weirdest sense of being listened to, studied. It made him aware of how inattentive most human beings were in general.”

“His throat felt like marble. She could not snap the bones! But he could not throw her off, either, no matter how hard he tried.”