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“Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die”

World Wells Purpose Order Dies Stars Late Sitting My Friends Western Sunset Too Late Sail Baths

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.”

Has Beens Sun Air Drug Late Too Late Eclipse Twilight Series Eclipse Of The Sun

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.”

Ifs Knows Plans Failing Risk Regret Late Lifetime Too Late Lives Of Others

Book:Personal Demon

Source: Personal Demon

“He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

Thinking Knows Way Has Beens Stills I Can Used Fighting Voice Half Sun Air Drug Late Mouths Clouds Corners Critical Handle Gentle Too Late Balanced Think Of You Eclipse

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.”

Heart Remember Felt Regret Late Silent Curiosity Intense Too Late Cheeks Recalls Dazzle Silent Heart

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Sooner or later usually means too late”

Mean Late Too Late Sooner Or Later

Book:Extras

Source: Extras

“Right then, I wanted to go back in time and relive every moment with him. One more secret smile, one more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. He’d come into my life too late, and now was leaving too soon. I remembered him telling he’d give up everything for me. He already had.”

Knows Giving Moments Wanted Secret Laughing Kissing Giving Up Findings Late Leaving Remembered Too Late Electric Back In Time Finding Someone Go Back In Time Secret Smile

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“Do what, Kim? Lead a normal life? Too late. Way too late.”

Way Normal Late Too Late Normal Life Kim

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.”

Knows Late Too Late

Book:The Reader

Source: The Reader

“Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.”

Matter Stories Attention Essentials Late Paid Too Late Usual

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.”

Running Moving Alive Doors Late South Too Late Swings Continuing

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”

Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

“Nice is good, but it's not enough. I want you back for real. I want to talk to you at lunch, instead of staring at you while you eat. I want to see the smile on your face and know I put it there. I want to hear your dad's voice get all low and pissed off, like it only does when I've stayed over too late.”

Source: Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper

“Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.”

Persons Enough Care Late Take Care Sentences Too Late Protected Alex

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Very early in my life it was already too late.”

Late Too Late

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been pure, raw energy, and now you control it. Youʹre the most amazing woman Iʹve ever met, and Iʹm glad to have had that love for you in my life. I regret losing it.ʺ He grew pensive. ʺI would give anything—anything—in the world to go back and change history. To run into your arms after Lissa brought me back. To have a life with you. Itʹs too late, of course, but Iʹve accepted it.ʺ”

World Giving Firsts Running Beautiful Courses Energy Regret Hair Arms Grew Mets Pure Late Losing Accepted Glad Too Late I Regret Most Amazing Pensive Amazing Woman

Author:Richelle Mead

“Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.”

Kind Doe Soul Late Too Late Juice Pouring

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.”

“It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”

Ifs Men Said Seems Felt Sun Land Baby Moon Kissing Late Mark Islands Too Late Foreheads Baptism

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.”

Has Beens Said Sides Hours Break Feet Fine Ought Late Standing Knees Necks Too Late Twelve Injured Interrupted Your Side Whitney Fine Day

Author:Judith McNaught

“Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.”

People Thinking Knows Want Writing Wells Said Country Facts School Reading Understanding Teach Saws Teacher Teaching Months Late Forests Useless Too Late Assets Reading And Writing

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.”

Ifs Men Years Said Done Hands Wanted Waiting Hours Behinds Known Five Circumstances Late Opposites Constant Five Years Too Late Steel Caution Hammers Realised Boyhood Good Woman Hammered Behind My Back

Book:Eona

Source: Eona

“I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.”

Wells Wanted Actors Roles Stage Late Too Late Bows

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even though it's futile. Even though it's way past too late.”

Way Use Past Moving Names Calling Late Lips Too Late Void Whispering Name Calling

Author:Alyson Noel

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

Knows Sometimes Three Enemy Lovers Late Too Late Friend Enemy

Book:Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

Source: Persuasion: World Classics

“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”

“It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.”

Thinking Needs Years I Can Father Four Late Daughter Thirty Too Late My Daughter Four Years Seventeen

Book:Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late”

Made Late Too Late Resolution Fatality

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

“He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the drought to come. And when he finally pulled away, my throat was thick with unspoken words, my heart heavy with every apology I'd ever denied him. But it was too late for promises. The time had come for goodbye.”

Men Heart Soul My Heart Promise Kissing Late Heavy Preparation Goodbye Too Late Feds Throat Denied Thick Apology Starving Drank Famine Unspoken Drought Unspoken Words

Book:Pride

Source: Pride

“It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.”

“I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).”

Believe Doe Said Late Too Late Believe In Me

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.”

Source: Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation

“There are only two times. Now and too late.”

Two Late Too Late

Author:Anh Do

“Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.”

Ifs Humility Late Too Late

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late.”

People Way Earth Fall Communication Moon Late Meetings Falling In Love Too Late Forbidden

Author:Naoko Takeuchi

“Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.”

People Way Trying Ideas Sometimes Saws Late Forgotten Too Late Working It Realising

Author:Tove Jansson

“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”

Knows Littles Late Too Late

Book:MURDER IN THREE ACTS

Source: MURDER IN THREE ACTS

“For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”

Night Week Taught Late Dresses Teeth Too Late Brushes Mechanic Perfume

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.”

Littles Opportunity Felt Waiting Mom Late Too Late Couches Once Upon A Time Rare Opportunities

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“Anya made you kiss her? Yeah. And at our next stop, I'll expect you to deliver. I'll pay, William piped up. After you describe everything about that kiss you two shared. Did you cop a feel? You did, didn't you, you little hussy. I bet you moaned a lot, too. Too late for you to pay, she said in a sing song voice. Strider already offered, and I already accepted. And no, I won't do any describing. You can just imagine how sexy it was. Oh, and Willie. Just so you know, your imagination won't do it justice.”

Knows Feels Littles Made Said Two Song Next Voice Imagination Justice Pay Imagine Kissing Late Yeah Sexy Accepted Too Late Cop Describing Strider Hussies

Book:The Darkest Secret

Source: The Darkest Secret

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”

Able Past Accepting Involved Late Forgiving Assuming Too Late Get Involved Forgive Yourself Learn To Forgive

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”

People World Trying Years Littles Made Matter Jobs Loses Sin Bears Civilization Late Happenings Years Ago Blame Contribution Too Late Reporters Nazi True You Willful Ignorance

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.”

Ifs Dies Mistake Missing Planets Regret Late Dumb Too Late Worth Living Really Dumb

Author:Muriel Barbery

“I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.”

Looks Sometimes Late Too Late

Book:The Eternal Ones

Source: The Eternal Ones

“I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.”

Giving Stills Listening Giving Up Late Too Late Thirteen

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.”

“I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.”

Important Moments Facts Certain Late Absolutes Too Late Vague Confirmation Immediacy Future Direction

Book:Isabelle the Navigator

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

“‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.”

Wanted Late Losing Too Late

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“- I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava.”

Want Late Too Late

Author:Simone Elkeles

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