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41 " What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander. "
― Rick Riordan , The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
42 " Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak. "
43 " If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!) "
44 " A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention. "
45 " We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world? "
46 " Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans). "
47 " My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?] "
48 " Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion. "
49 " Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right. "
50 " I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary. "
51 " Who are you and why are you my cat? "
52 " I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video. "
53 " I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school. "
54 " Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day. "
55 " Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask. "
56 " His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits. "
57 " Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks. "
58 " Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid’s chimney with his new friend, the fruit bat, he left me playing nurse to two very wounded people—which I didn’t appreciate, and which I wasn’t particularly good at. "
59 " It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo. "
60 " His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well, Sadie," Inspector Williams said. "You've got quite an imagination." "I'm not lying, Inspector. And I think your eyebrow is trying to escape." He tried to look at his own eyebrows, then scowled. "