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• I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.

  Dave Pelzer

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blow

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “A Child Called It”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

  Marisha Pessl

  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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• Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

  Henry Jenkins

  Book, Tired, Names

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture”, p.1, NYU Press

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• wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

  Lucille Clifton

  Believe, Son, Thinking

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together." That was stretching it a bit, since all Charlotte had done was give Sarah lessons in how to avoid fortune hunters, thus ensuring that the recalcitrant girl went right out and married the first one who approached her.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Girl, Giving, Wife

  Sabrina Jeffries (2009). “Wed Him Before You Bed Him”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

  Mary Roach

  Memories, Ambition, Science

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• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, America, People

  Tom Wolfe (2010). “Hooking Up”, p.1929, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.

  Rick Riordan

  Party, Son, Army

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• Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

  James A. Baldwin

  Order, People, Waiting

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• Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

  Eileen Wilks

  Regret, Guilt, Too Late

  Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin

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• Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Book, Too Late

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• I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn’t want to be late.

  Ilona Andrews

  Want, Deviants, Appointments

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.105, Penguin

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• You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

  Laura Moriarty

  Past, People, Too Late

  Laura Moriarty (2013). “The Rest of Her Life”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Light, Tree

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• ...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

  Ruth Reichl

  Important, Too Late, Make Yourself Happy

  Ruth Reichl (2010). “For You Mom, Finally”, p.41, Penguin

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• Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

  Ruth Reichl

  Mom, Growing Up, Teaching

  Ruth Reichl (2010). “For You Mom, Finally”, p.43, Penguin

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• Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Tree, Too Late

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.245, Macmillan

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• early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

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• Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?

  Ellen Schreiber

  School, Ravens, Tomorrow

  Ellen Schreiber (2010). “Vampire Kisses: The Beginning”, p.9, Allen & Unwin

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• For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

  Ray Bradbury

  Responsibility, Up To You, Too Late

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• If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight.

  Jay Asher

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late

  Rob Sheffield

  Lying, Home, Touching

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.63, Crown Archetype

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• …but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.146

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• There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Real, Soul, Brain

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2006). “A Girl of the Limberlost”, p.208, Applewood Books

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• Imagine you are walking down a leafy path...The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny...seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly.

  Azar Nafisi

  Memories, Rain, Light

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.59, Random House

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