Daughter of the Gods Quotes

“Years ago, Re had raged against humans for violating Ma’at, so he had sent Hathor to destroy mankind. She transformed into the lion goddess Sekhmet and Egypt’s fields ran red with the blood of her rampage. Seeing this, Re realized his mistake and ordered Sekhmet to stop, but she was too gone with bloodlust to listen. Knowing he had to halt her some other way, Re stained seven thousand jugs of beer with pomegranate juice and poured the red liquid into her path. Believing the beer to be blood, Sekhmet gorged herself and passed out in a drunken stupor. When she awoke, her bloodlust had passed and she returned to being Hathor. Thus the goddesses of love and violence shared a common history.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“She grasped the crook and flail with cool hands and sank gracefully to her knees. The High Priest of Amun placed a piece of flatbread imprinted with an ankh, the symbol of everlasting life, upon her tongue. It was gritty, the dough having been sprinkled with sand blessed by all the High Priests before it was baked that morning.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Ankh, udja, seneb!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“as the old pharaoh was laid to rest, allowing her brother to claim his place fully upon the Isis Throne.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Slaves marched in carrying blue faience glasses of wine and golden trays of imported Minoan olives, pomegranate-melon salad, and bread with cloves of garlic baked inside. Hatshepsut waved away a basket of mandrake berries with their intoxicating flesh. They didn’t need help celebrating tonight.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“It seemed a cruel trick of the gods that youth and wisdom were never joined together.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Her name would now be engraved into the list of all the pharaohs who had ruled over Egypt, a living god in her own right.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“This moment would forever etch her name on Egypt’s history. Twenty-six years old and dressed in a man’s long kilt of cloth of gold, Hatshepsut wore all the pharaoh’s trappings—the bull’s tail to denote strength, false beard to associate her with Osiris, and the golden uraeus at her brow for protection.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“You’ll do what you’ve always done,” he said. “Fight for what you want, one day at a time.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt