# Medusa's Web

- Author: [Tim Powers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/medusas-web

## Quotes

> I owe a fortune in student loans, and after I got my degree in education and tried to apply it, I caught on that the emperor had no clothes—

p. 292

> “Did he say who he was?” asked Scott.
>
> “I asked him,” said Ariel. “He sort of laughed and said he was between names.”

p. 288

> “Doesn’t she read chicken entrails?”
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> “Oh! No, astrology.”
>
> “Same sort of thing.”

p. 55

> “I’d offer you a drink,” he said, “but all I have is the good stuff.”

p. 207

> “I got to missing her, the way things used to be here, the past. The past,” she repeated. “It’s always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different time. What’s the use of knowing what time it is, if it’s always changing? And it’s always later!”

p. 99

> When my mother told me the meek would inherit the earth, I told her all I wanted of it was the shovelful that would cover my cold face.

p. 178

> “She did love us. Does.”
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> “She loves you the way a drowning person loves somebody they can push down and climb on top of.”

p. 163