# Quote — Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time

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

- Author: [Michael Bishop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop.md)
- Book: [No Enemy But Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time.md)
- Page: 206
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Bishop#No_Enemy_But_Time_(1982)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time/you-cant-go-home

## More from this book

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

p. 303 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time/they-had-both.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time/here-he-was.md)

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

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time/extinction-confers-on-the.md)