“Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos of a promise as it broke.”
“He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes...”
“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”
“Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”
“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.”
“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”