Nefertiti Quotes

“And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

“The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

“I arrive at the wooden door. I offer a prayer to the little god in his niche who knows I don’t believe in him, then push the door open.The courtyard is swept and tidy, the olive tree stands silver and green. I listen to the silence.”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

“I am wary of the words ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. We use them far too easily to judge things which we have no competence to judge. And I could not say that the things I have seen here in Akhetaten are right. People are people: avaricious, ambitious, strutting, careless. That doesn’t change.”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

“And he who owns the water, owns the city - indeed owns life itself. But no-one in truth owns the river. It is greater, more enduring and more powerful than any of us, almost more than any god. It can tear us apart with its force or starve us by withholding its yearly inundation. It is full of death. It carries corpses of beast and men and children whose dwelling time in its depths has shocked them green. …And yet it sustains our rich black earth from which spring our green crops, our barley and wheat.”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

“heads held up above the waterline. He left me on the far side. Suddenly the simple quietness of the world returned to me: a few birds, some children playing at the water’s edge, the occasional calls of women working in the fields. No other boats were approaching or landing here. The sun, slowly descending towards the western cliffs, guided me towards the general area where the fort lay. I set off between the fields of emmer and barley. How immaculate they were, tended to perfection over all time as if the fields themselves were worshipped gods. At one point a group of men riding donkeys appeared ahead of me, but we nodded and continued without attending much to one another. The track between the fields”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: A Rahotep Mystery

“I, Rahotep, youngest chief detective of the Thebes Medjay division,”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: A Rahotep Mystery

“I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.”
― Nick Drake, Nefertiti: A Mystery