Late Quotes - Page 37

• Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Jobs, Done, Rewards

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.203, Baen Books

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• I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Life, Thinking, Too Late

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

  Patricia Highsmith

  Compliment

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.136, She Winked Press

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• Did you bring me a hamburger? Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd never asked for that before. Coffee? It's late. Doughnuts? No. What good are you then?

  Rachel Caine

  Coffee, Hamburgers, Bizarre

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.15, Allison & Busby

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• I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Heart, Hands

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.773, St. Martin's Press

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• That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Dark, Next

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

  Alice Munro

  People, Achievement, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 10, 2015

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• Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

  Ian Mcewan

  School, Years, Names

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• We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

  Stephen King

  Too Late, Why Not, Influence

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

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• Too late. I’ve already seen the blush. Stop trying to hide it from me. I think it’s adorable.

  Abbi Glines

  Thinking, Adorable, Trying

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• You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello. "What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me..." "See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league." "You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Hurt, Jealous

  "Double Crossed". Book by Ally Carter, January 22, 2013.

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• Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.

  Lauren Oliver

  Friday, Dad, Party

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• I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Apology, Hard Times

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• I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Years, Rose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

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• I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Thinking, Too Late

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.29, Random House

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• I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Monsters, Too Late, Way

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• I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.

  Abbi Glines

  Confused, Eye, Soul

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• What would they talk about? Hi, my name's Vane and I howl at the moon late at night in the form of a wolf. I sleep with your daughter and don't think I could live without her. Mind if I have a beer? Oh and while we're at it, let me introduce my brothers. This one here is a deadly wolf known to kill for nothing more than looking at him cross-eyed, and the other one is comatose because some vampires sucked the life out of him after we'd both been sentenced to death by our jealous father. Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Brother, Father

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.304, Macmillan

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• You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Winning, Too Late

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• I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.

  Veronica Roth

  Love You, Thinking, Scary

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• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Thieves

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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• Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

  Bryan Davis

  Broken, Bird, Too Late

  Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan

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• Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

  Bill Watterson

  Appreciate, Miracle, Too Late

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Teacher, Lying, Miracle

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• And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more important to capture moments like this, keen shifts in mood, sudden veering of direction - than to lose it in slumber.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friday, Night, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.153, Anchor

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