Late Quotes - Page 29

• Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

  Rumi

  Life, Wings, Effort

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• Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Boards, Arms, Shay

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Weed, Morning

  "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

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• I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Bed, Feels

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• anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of baywrap. "Dox?" "In his room on the third floor," Vin said. "He got up early, came down to get something to eat, and went back upstairs." ... Ham raised an eyebrow. "You always keep track of where everyone is like that?" "Yes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Sleep, Night, Eyebrows

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• We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

  Kami Garcia

  Way, Serious, Pantyhose

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).

  Jonathan Stroud

  Distance, Dark, Night

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.

  Ilona Andrews

  Aztec, Style, Taco Bell

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.49, Penguin

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• 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.

  Alyson Noel

  Moving, Past, Names

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• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Night, Trouble

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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

  Robert Jordan

  Enemy, Three, Too Late

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.734, Macmillan

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• I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

  Emily Giffin

  Life And Love, Heart, Games

  Emily Giffin (2006). “Baby Proof”

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion: World Classics”, p.218, World Classic

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Sorry, Mean, Light

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1)". Book by Douglas Adams (Chapter 3), October 12, 1979.

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• 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.

  Melina Marchetta

  Daughter, Father, Thinking

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.66, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

  Abigail Adams

  Feet, Forever, Accomplish

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• I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

  John Waters

  Book, Fall, Sleep

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.153, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Too Late, Resolution, Made

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.269, Harvard University Press

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• How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

  Jenny Downham

  Easter, Halloween, Spring

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• 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.

  Rachel Vincent

  Goodbye, Heart, Kissing

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.424, MIRA

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• The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

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• 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.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Butterfly, Exercise, Dark

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 06, 2013

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• I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.

  Janet Frame

  Morning, Light, Challenges

  Janet Frame (1972). “Daughter Buffalo”

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• 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).

  Jean Rhys

  Believe, Doe, Too Late

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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