Top 200 Chloe Thurlow Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Little matters much and much doesn’t matter at all.”

— Chloe Thurlow

103. “We have no obligation other than to be ourself. Your friends, your family, the daily beat of life will shape you into a form pleasing to them. Your job is to make something pleasing to you. As soon as a crowd forms, leave it.”

— Chloe Thurlow

104. “I had avoided writing about love. I had never sensed that rush and buzz that comes with love, the release into the brain of body chemicals, pheromones and dopamine – the taste of love to which I was becoming addicted, his spearminty tongue when we kissed, his male sweat, the outdoor vanilla tang of his semen.”

— Chloe Thurlow

105. “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

106. “If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any given time. Like yin and yang, truth and lies are inseparable, each containing a seed of the other, no words are ever entirely true or entirely untrue.”

— Chloe Thurlow

107. “If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.”

— Chloe Thurlow

108. “Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.”

— Chloe Thurlow

109. “Love is war. The best tactic in attack is surrender.”

— Chloe Thurlow

110. “It’s lost time that matters – the time between time – the moments when you forget time and life just happens.”

— Chloe Thurlow

111. “Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture – dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound – wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm – the tango, obviously.”

— Chloe Thurlow

112. “Some people never take a chance and never know what it’s like to live life to the full.”

— Chloe Thurlow

113. “When I was young, a teen, fresh as a glass of water, my first lover said I should break the mirror and never seek on out again. He was right, of course.”

— Chloe Thurlow

114. “I told her the clitoris is like a Bonsai tree that needs constant tending and the g-spot is an unexplored island waiting to have a flag pinned on its peak. She laughed and said I should be a poet. Then we went to bed and crossed the sheets as if it were a new continent we had just discovered.”

— Chloe Thurlow

115. “An orgasm is like the big bang, the explosion that creates life and makes life worth living.”

— Chloe Thurlow

116. “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

117. “There is an erotic charge prising the top from a new lipstick, leaning into the mirror and painting your masterpiece. Lipstick has its own unique taste and lingers on your tongue like semen.”

— Chloe Thurlow

118. “There is a moment after riding when you stop and listen. What you hear is your heartbeat in perfect rhythm with the beat of your horse’s heart. It is a moment of pure magic.”

— Chloe Thurlow

119. “I understood how strangers met and fell into bed, not how they met and fell in love. I wasn’t sure what falling in love meant. The very notion seemed so corny, so arbitrary, so fragile.”

— Chloe Thurlow

120. “It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.”

— Chloe Thurlow

121. “Depression comes from not accepting the way things are – and seeing no way too change them.”

— Chloe Thurlow

122. “Is this love? The light looks different. Actually the shade looks different. I feel different. Everything is just so different I don’t know where to begin...”

— Chloe Thurlow

123. “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

124. “When you feel a snake slither down your spine and your nipples are itchy, when your armpits tingle and your mouth is dry when you see him, that’s first love.”

— Chloe Thurlow

125. “I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.”

— Chloe Thurlow

126. “Don’t waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm.”

— Chloe Thurlow

127. “When you have your first virgin orgasm it’s like seeing a mirror reflecting all the good things life has in store.”

— Chloe Thurlow

128. “In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.”

— Chloe Thurlow

129. “The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.”

— Chloe Thurlow

130. “Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

131. “Innocence isn’t something we lose, but realise we don’t need.”

— Chloe Thurlow

132. “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

133. “The way the leaves on the trees tremble in the passing air is the way love reaches you, from all directions at once, mysterious, overwhelming, indescribable. To be in love is to find something you didn’t know was missing.”

— Chloe Thurlow

134. “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

135. “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

136. “The seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action.”

— Chloe Thurlow

137. “We are drawn to repetition. We can watch the tide rolling for hours into shore. The clouds skittering across the sky. We can listen to the pulsing beat of bongo drums and are drawn magnetically to the slap, slap, slap of a girl being chastised. The human is a mystery, even too himself.”

— Chloe Thurlow

138. “Photographs shape the past in our own image.”

— Chloe Thurlow

139. “You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.”

— Chloe Thurlow

140. “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

141. “Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.”

— Chloe Thurlow

142. “The first time I was spanked I cried. The second time I cried out for more.”

— Chloe Thurlow

143. “When life becomes a nightmare all you have are your dreams.”

— Chloe Thurlow

144. “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

145. “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

146. “Anything added can be subtracted; anything verbose can be simplified; anything missing can be found. Manuscripts are not books but negatives waiting for the fixer that turns them into prints.”

— Chloe Thurlow

147. “Choosing whether or not to insert a comma is the same as choosing whether or not to buy a house.”

— Chloe Thurlow

148. “Lips are the outward sign, the emblem of desire, and lipstick is the ink in which we graffiti that message on our smile, our pout and pucker. When a girl blows a man a kiss she is sending him a piece of her soul.”

— Chloe Thurlow

149. “Getting dressed starts with shoes. Getting undressed ends with shoes.”

— Chloe Thurlow

150. “If you are not happy with everything you have you become everything you lack.”

— Chloe Thurlow