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Mummy Quotes

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Elizabeth Peters
“God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,� he said bitterly. “We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.”
Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank

Amit Kalantri
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Jennifer Niven
“I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.”
Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

Amit Kalantri
“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Tahir Shah
“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.”
Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

Stephen Moles
“Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He is usually portrayed as being half human and half jackal, and holding a metal detector in his hand ... Anubis is employed by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the hearts of all travellers to make sure they have not exceeded the weight limit for psychological baggage ... He is also shown frisking mummies and confiscating firearms and other contraband. It doesn't take much to tip the scales in favour of a dead body cavity search or an afterlifetime travel ban.”
Stephen Moles, The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Seabury Quinn
“At first it seemed to be no more than a chance ray of light beamed into the vestibule by the shifting of a tree-bough between house and street lamp, but as we kept our eyes glued to it we saw that it was a form - a tall, attenuated, skeletally-thin form moving stealthily in the shadow.

Slowly the thing emerged from the gloom of the doorway, and despite the warning I had had, I felt a prickling sensation at the back of my neck just above my collar, and a feeling as of sudden chill ran through my forearms. It was tall, as we had been told, fully six feet from its bare-boned feet to hairless, parchment-covered skull; and the articulation of its skeleton could be seen plainly through the leathery skin that clung to the gaunt, staring bones. The nose was large, high-bridged and haughty, like the beak of a falcon or eagle, and the chin was prominent beneath the brownish sheath of skin that stretched drum-tight across it. The eyes were closed and showed only as twin depressions in the skull-like countenance, but the mummified lips had retracted to show a double line of teeth in a mirthless grin. Its movements were irregular and stiff, like the movements of some monstrous mechanical doll or, as Edina Laurace had expressed it, like a marionette worked by unseen wires. But once it had emerged from the doorway it moved with shocking quickness. Jerkily, and with exaggeratedly high knee-action, it crossed the lawn, came to the sidewalk, turned on its parchment-soled feet as if on a pivot, and started after de Grandin.

("The Man In Crescent Terrace")”
Seabury Quinn, The Mummy Walks Among Us
tags: mummy

Khalia N. Hades
“Excuse me soldiers, but do you mind stepping away from your lady friends?"
We were here for the prostitutes.
"And why should we do that crypt Keeper?”
Khalia Hades, The Alaskan Mummy

Israelmore Ayivor
“My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.

(The Mummy, Universal Studios, 1932)”
John L. Balderston
tags: mummy

Seabury Quinn
“Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'

("The Man In Crescent Terrace")”
Seabury Quinn, The Mummy Walks Among Us

Khalia N. Hades
“I know you did what you could to help pappa."
"Kid," I brushed his hand off my shoulder. "Your father did a stupid thing and paid the price for it. Now fuck off.”
Khalia Hades, The Alaskan Mummy

Khalia N. Hades
“I have nothing against gay officers, but its time to get your shit straight an leave the drag at home.”
Khalia Hades, The Alaskan Mummy

Divya Prakash Dubey
“चिट्ठी भेजूँगी � तुम्हे� , बताओगे नही� मिश्रा जी �
जैसे ही उसने मिश्रा जी बोला ऐस� लग� मम्मी पापा से किसी ची� की जि� कर रही हो � मम्मी को जब भी अपनी को� ची� मनवानी होती है पापा से तो वो उनको मिश्रा जी ही बोलती है� �”
Divya Prakash Dubey

Carlos Fuentes
“� ¿Y por qué no vives siempre con nosotros como antes, mamacita?
� Porque ahora tu mamacita tiene que trabajar en vez de tu papacito, que se fue al cielo.”
Carlos Fuentes, La región más transparente

Bhavik Sarkhedi
“A mother made a deal with her daughter, "You teach me Snapchat. I will not bother you on Whatsapp.”
Bhavik Sarkhedi
tags: mummy

“Poems are mummified ideas”
Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Don’t you think I’ve had enough excitement for one evening, without the additional thrill of a strange man making love to me?

(Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann) to Frank Whemple, who claims to have fallen in love with her at first sight. The Mummy, Universal Studios, 1932)”
John L. Balderston
tags: mummy

Gretel Ehrlich
“During the night, sheet lightning inlaid the walls with cool gold. I felt like an ancient, mummified child who had been found on a rock ledge near our ranch: bound tightly, unable to move, my dead face tipped backwards toward the moon.”
Gretel Ehrlich, A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning