“It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.”

“It's the things you do that you don't have to do that always determine the difference when it is too late to do anything about it.”

“The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.”

“Are you certain you'll be happy?" she asked.Eloise smiled ruefully. "It's a little late to wonder, don't you think?""It might be too late to do anything about it, but it's never too late to wonder.”

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

“Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.”