# Quote — Tim Powers, Medusa's Web

> “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!”

- Author: [Tim Powers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers.md)
- Book: [Medusa's Web](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/medusas-web.md)
- Page: 99
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#Medusa's_Web_(2016)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/medusas-web/i-got-to-missing

## More from this book

> 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—

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> “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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/medusas-web/did-he-say.md)

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

p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/medusas-web/doesnt-she-read.md)