147 Quotes & Sayings By Chloe Thurlow

Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison Chloe Thurlow

Beautiful girls — the true beauties — are rarely vain, arrogant, poseurs. It is the girl who makes disproportionate efforts with makeup, clothes, heels and hair who suffers these conceits. They are girls who have made themselves appear beautiful without ever reaching the exalted status of being beautiful girls. Chloe Thurlow

What constitutes a beautiful girl? It is not merely an anatomical or aesthetic quality. Beautiful girls have an inner beauty, an inner light that defeats the darkness. It is a way of walking, smiling, of being. They have a certain smell, sweet as baby breath. They radiate good will, kindness, selflessness. Chloe Thurlow

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve? Chloe Thurlow

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. Chloe Thurlow

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being. Chloe Thurlow

Sex spelled backwards is excess and that's how it should always be. Chloe Thurlow

Sex is a three letter word even the worst speller in the world can spell. Chloe Thurlow

Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust. Chloe Thurlow

When you remove love from sex you enter a mansion with many rooms shaded in nuance and excess, an invitation to peel away all conventions and programming. A chance to explore your hidden self. You shed something and clothe yourself in something else. Sex is the greatest of gifts. Orgasm a glimpse of perfection. Chloe Thurlow

After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea. Chloe Thurlow

The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are. Chloe Thurlow

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be. Chloe Thurlow

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves. Chloe Thurlow

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life. Chloe Thurlow

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules. Chloe Thurlow

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something. Chloe Thurlow

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius. Chloe Thurlow

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question. Chloe Thurlow

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them. Chloe Thurlow

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs. Chloe Thurlow

Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking. Chloe Thurlow

Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all. Chloe Thurlow

When you cut the cords on the safety net and walk out on the highwire, you become yourself and become all that you can be and all that you were meant to be. But first, you must cut the cords. Chloe Thurlow

Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, pursue and achieve, love and propagate, age and fade unfulfilled and uncertain what it has all been for. We swallow the operating system with our mother's milk and sleepwalk into the forest of consumer illusion craving shoes, houses, cars, magazines, experiences that endorse our preconceived dreams and opinions. We grow into our parents. We becomes clones, robots, matchstick men thinking and saying the same, feeling the same, behaving the same, appreciating in books and films and art shows those things we already recognize and understand. Chloe Thurlow

If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had imagined my own ghost and seen my unvanishing footsteps. When you don't belong anywhere it doesn't matter where you are or where you go, if you stay or move on. You arrive at a place where the view forwards and backwards is the same, where the sun rises in the east one day and the west the next, where you stop planning and live like the birds and beasts by intuition and instinct. . Chloe Thurlow

I gaze out of the window at the lanes of red taillights streaming towards the hills, the city laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, the view confirming that I was much more alone than I thought, and all those red lights inspired nothing more than a sense that I, too, should be fleeing somewhere. Chloe Thurlow

Inside our mind there is hidden place that contains the mind within the mind. There, you will find another version of yourself that may be your true self. We do not find that self by travelling, by searching. We find that self by sitting still, being quiet and looking inside. Ask yourself: who am I? And your true self will answer. Chloe Thurlow

When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires. Chloe Thurlow

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed. Chloe Thurlow

There is a word I have always avoided in my writing, my life, my thoughts. That word is love. What does it mean? How do you deal with it? If you find it and lose it, how do you get over it? Love is something you feel and when you feel it you can’t trust it or define it. How can you sustain love for a long time? A short time? You may love your family, your friends. But you don’t invite them inside your body. Chloe Thurlow

When you can cross the highwire without falling off, you are in a state of perfect balance, perfect grace. It is the same with obedience. When you submit, submit totally, you enter that same equilibrium, surrender and grace. This is the meaning of erotic. Chloe Thurlow

We are trapped in a net of our our own self-doubt, on the programming force fed to us by parents, schools, society. In a certain light, on certain days, you can see that net. And once you can see it, you can learn to make it go away. Chloe Thurlow

The seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action. Chloe Thurlow

The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else. Chloe Thurlow

Love is like being on a small boat in the middle of the sea with no compass and no one to rely on except each other. Chloe Thurlow

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. Chloe Thurlow

Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising. Chloe Thurlow

Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air. Chloe Thurlow

A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman. Chloe Thurlow

You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side. Chloe Thurlow

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things. Chloe Thurlow

You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need. Chloe Thurlow

When it happened I was terrified. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I was a cliche. I looked at myself in the mirror and in my eyes was a look I had never seen before: confusion, mystery and, yes, happiness. I had fallen in love. Chloe Thurlow

The kiss is the greatest of gifts, a miracle, uniquely human. A kiss beneath the mistletoe. A kiss after midnight. A kiss before dying. The devil's kiss. As a picture tells a thousand words, so a kiss says everything that's important. I am told prostitutes never kiss their clients. It is too personal, too human. We kiss to say I love you. We kiss the rings of the self-important. The feet of conquerors. The rich dark earth when we reach the promised land. We kiss our hands and wave as loved ones begin a journey. We kiss strangers before dawn in the first hours of a New Year because our wintry lips are incomplete until they are oiled by a kiss. Chloe Thurlow

Two spacemen touching in anti-gravity is like a kiss. But then, there is nothing like a kiss. A kiss is a rare bird. The first sip of champagne. The fleeting glimpse of a shooting star. The kiss is uniquely human. We exchange bodily fluids with a kiss. A great kiss is like eating melon on a picnic. Like diving into a warm sea. A French kiss is a battle of tongues where everyone wins. Chloe Thurlow

Making love requires no thought. You move as the fronds of a palm tree move in the breeze. It is all instinct. All wonder. When you love someone, your lips are incomplete until they are oiled by a kiss. You can say ‘I love you’ a thousand ways but you can say it better with silence and a kiss. Chloe Thurlow

It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment. Chloe Thurlow

Nothing is better than sex and nothing is exactly like it. Chloe Thurlow

Sex is about anticipation not culmination. Chloe Thurlow

Sex is a three act play: foreplay, play and afterplay. Chloe Thurlow

If sex is a journey, orgasm is the both the purpose and journey's end. Chloe Thurlow

The touch of his fingertips on my back is like a great cellist brushing the strings of his instrument, or a watchmaker turning a tiny screw invisible to the naked eye. The feeling is erotic, magical, and I just want to go home and go to bed. Chloe Thurlow

A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture. Chloe Thurlow

Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica. Chloe Thurlow

When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica. Chloe Thurlow

When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself. Chloe Thurlow

The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic. Chloe Thurlow

Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic. Chloe Thurlow

Love is possession, a sort of vanity. Chloe Thurlow

There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been. Chloe Thurlow

The hardest thing in the world is to be original. It seems like our heads are filled with banalities and clichés. You have to keep digging deeper and deeper to try and find a fresh new seam that hasn't been explored. Chloe Thurlow

If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm. Chloe Thurlow

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them. Chloe Thurlow

Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous. Chloe Thurlow

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul. Chloe Thurlow

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor. Chloe Thurlow

Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one. Chloe Thurlow

Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear. Chloe Thurlow

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need. Chloe Thurlow

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled. Chloe Thurlow

Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something is good, good within your own limits, and those parts make life worth living. Chloe Thurlow

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl. Chloe Thurlow

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do. Chloe Thurlow

I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning revealed the flaws and excesses it was trying to conceal. Chloe Thurlow

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. Chloe Thurlow

A rubber doll with a microchip can imitate human flesh without human feeling. Porn leaves an emptiness inside. Erotica sets up a vibration in the mind that sends pulsing waves through the body. Chloe Thurlow

It's fun being a girl. Chloe Thurlow

Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others. Chloe Thurlow

Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves. Chloe Thurlow

Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure. Chloe Thurlow

You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial. Chloe Thurlow

Every time you have an orgasm an angel comes to life.. Chloe Thurlow

The moment of orgasm is like the first dramatic moment of birth when you draw breath and scream out that you are alive. It is hard to imagine the moment when you fade back into the vacuum and draw your last breath. Chloe Thurlow

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile. Chloe Thurlow

In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come. Chloe Thurlow

There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for. Chloe Thurlow

Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness. Chloe Thurlow

Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind. Chloe Thurlow

Love and being in love are not the same. A woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her. Chloe Thurlow

Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames. Chloe Thurlow

I thought that love would last forever. But nothing is forever. Life is not forever. The only reliable permanence is change. Love hurts because change is painful. Love hurts because love lost is an assault on our ego. We fear that we will fail again and those who live in fear of failure slowly but inevitably fail. Chloe Thurlow

Man was not born to be monogamous. What has changed in the 21st century — at 21 the world surely has come of age — is the understanding that woman is not meant to be monogamous either. Just as love hurts, new love heals. Chloe Thurlow

While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever. Chloe Thurlow

Love is not a spaceship you construct and then fly off together into the stars. Love is a soap bubble that bursts in the air. Love is the first winter snowflake that falls into you palm, a mirage that glows in the sun and fades in the shadows. Chloe Thurlow