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• I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

  Garth Stein

  Mistake, Rain, Track

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Ideas, Fifty

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• Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.

  David Benatar

  People, Quality, Life Is

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

  John le Carre

  Regret, Men, Worst Enemy

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• It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  People, Giving, Personality

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

  David Levithan

  Giving, Want, Knows

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Farewell, Opportunity, Names

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription”

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• If anyone asks you if you’re taken,” I said, “the answer is yes.” “I think I can live with that,” he promised. “Good,” I said. “Because you don’t want to see me be cross.” “Too late.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” We did—with the music of a psychotic griffin screaming behind us, and the sirens and horns of Brooklyn wailing below. It was quite romantic.

  Rick Riordan

  Taken, Thinking, Brooklyn

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• It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Notebook, Moving, Years

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.323, Random House

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• You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Eye, Effort

  Richelle Mead (2015). “Succubus Heat”, p.185, Zebra

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• But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, World, May

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• consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

  Alexandra Potter

  Thinking, Want, Firsts

  Alexandra Potter (2009). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'

  Taylor Swift

  Book, Thinking, Mirrors

  Liner Notes for the "Speak Now" album, 2010.

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• ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Lying, Self, Justice

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• And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cutting, Dark, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.

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• He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Easier, Late

  "The Shape". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "Wonders", Chapter: "Love", p. 54), July 14, 2012.

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• I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

  Lionel Shriver

  Past, Miracle, Ordinary

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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• If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Water, Degrees, Frogs

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• Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

  Daniel Handler

  Sometimes, Late, Plans

  "Fictional character: Lemony Snicket". "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. (2017-).

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• Erin was right. Apologies could come too late.

  Tammara Webber

  Apology, Erin, Late

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• I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.

  Abbi Glines

  Broken, Want, Littles

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.612, Simon and Schuster

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• Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Preventing, Late

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.200, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Two, Twenties

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• The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

  Rick Riordan

  Water, Twenties, Next

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