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• Charlotte, darling," Henry said to his wife, who was staring at him in gape-mouthed horror. Jessamine, beside her, was wide eyed. "Sorry I'm late. You know, I think I might nearly have the Sensor working-" Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "You're on fire. You do know that don't you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sorry, Thinking, Fire

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Littles, Muse

  "Zen in the Art of Writing" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 45), 1992.

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• These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Silly, Night, People

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• He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

  Thornton Wilder

  Youth, Pale, Ready

  Thornton Wilder (1963). “Bridge San Luis Rey”

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• I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

  Stephen King

  Things I Love, Lines, Pressure

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of - " He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you." "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wise, Attitude, Thinking

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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• Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You have the Fraggle Rock theme song as your ring tone,” he said, with a bemused look on his face. “You are so weird.

  Diana Rowland

  Song, Rocks, Phones

  Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.248, Bantam

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• Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Common Experience, Matter

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.215, Macmillan

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• So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.

  Jeff Buckley

  Sweet, Waiting, Too Late

  Song: Lover, You Should've Come Over, Album: Grace, 1994

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• The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

  Cornelia Funke

  Blood, Games, Enemy

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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Teenage, Book, Reading

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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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Sunset, Order

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eclipse Of The Sun, Air, Drug

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• 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.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Regret, Risk, Too Late

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Personal Demon”, p.454, Seal Books

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• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fighting, Thinking, Clouds

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Regret, Heart, Curiosity

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• Sooner or later usually means too late

  Scott Westerfeld

  Mean, Too Late, Sooner Or Later

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Giving Up, Kissing, Laughing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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

  Julie Anne Peters

  Too Late, Way, Kim

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

  Bernhard Schlink

  Too Late, Knows

  Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Usual, Essentials, Too Late

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• That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Regret, Night, Bed

  Siri Hustvedt (2017). “The Blindfold”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Moving, Swings

  "Fragile Things". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

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• 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.

  Frank Delaney

  Girl, Sports, Children

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House

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• 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.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dad, Real, Nice

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper”, p.505, Harlequin

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