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• I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Horse, Fall, Color

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.40, HarperCollins

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• 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.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Running, Dark, Meditation Practice

  Sharon Salzberg (2017). “Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation”, p.94, Hay House, Inc

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• I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev." Barabas sighed dramatically. "Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the top, except this time pretend you are an alpha." "I don't need a lecture. I just need the book." "Much better. Little more growl in the voice?" "Barabas!" "And we're there. Congratulations!

  Ilona Andrews

  Congratulations, Book, Voice

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• You're late," she said, tapping her watch. "No, you're just early.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Watches, Said, Tapping

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• There are only two times. Now and too late.

  Anh Do

  Two, Too Late

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

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Humility, Too Late, Ifs

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• 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.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Falling In Love, Communication, Moon

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• And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Summer, Wind, Law

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.3834, Delacorte Press

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• A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kids, Men, Practice

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.52, Random House

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• 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.

  Tove Jansson

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

  Beryl Markham

  Distance, Clouds, Years

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media

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

  Agatha Christie

  Too Late, Littles, Knows

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1934). “MURDER IN THREE ACTS”

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• 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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Night, Teeth, Dresses

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• 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Opportunity, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

  A. E. Housman

  Over You, Littles, Lovers

  A. E. Housman (2006). “50 Poemas”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento

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• 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.

  Gena Showalter

  Sexy, Song, Kissing

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.152, HQN Books

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• 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.

  Mitch Albom

  Past, Forgiving, Too Late

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED.

  Douglas Adams

  Morning, Editors, Office

  Douglas Adams (2002). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Iain Pears

  Jobs, Years, Civilization

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin

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• 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.

  Muriel Barbery

  Regret, Mistake, Missing

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

  William Faulkner

  Home, August, Air

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.123, Modern Library

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

  Kirsten Miller

  Looks, Too Late, Sometimes

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.126, Penguin

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

  Jay Asher

  Giving Up, Listening, Too Late

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.146, Penguin

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• 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.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Teacher, Fall, Writing

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• If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Tired, Sleep

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1925.

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