# No Enemy But Time

- Author: [Michael Bishop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time

## Quotes

> They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.

p. 303

> Here he was, not quite twenty-five years old, and he was going to have to make a new life for himself. A host of options lay before him, but, tipsy with Chablis and sunshine, at the moment all he could truly feel was a powerful sense of loss and uncertainty. All the routes to his previous self—the self that had tried to survive as a loner in Fort Walton Beach—were blocked, and he did not know which new path to choose.
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> “Ciao,” he said again, and this time he was not talking to his mother.

p. 315

> Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.

p. 158

> You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.

p. 206

> Time, as it always does, passed.

p. 316

> Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.

p. 76

> Paleoanthropologists were congenitally media-oriented.

p. 147