“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”

“Take care of the feelings a person has for you: you’ll almost always realize what she’s worth, when it’s too late.”

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”

“It's never too late to start over, reinvent yourself, and realize a future how and with whoever you want.”

“That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.”

“And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.”

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”

“Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.”

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”

“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.”