Top 200 Chloe Thurlow Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Chloe Thurlow

154. “Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment.”

— Chloe Thurlow

155. “Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing.”

— Chloe Thurlow

156. “You don’t feel yourself falling in love, like it’s a journey, a process; on the contrary, it hits you like a sudden ague, a fever, the realisation that your life will never be the same again.”

— Chloe Thurlow

157. “When innocence ends, pleasure begins.” Chloe Thurlow.”

— Chloe Thurlow

158. “What is love? Imagine a helium balloon tied down and then you cut the ropes on a windy day. That is love.”

— Chloe Thurlow

159. “In an invisible mirror you see your invisible self.”

— Chloe Thurlow

160. “There is an urge to believe that getting something you want will make you happy. The secret is to be happy without wanting anything. Is that so hard?”

— Chloe Thurlow

161. “There are many ways to live, to love, to aspire. The mountain only has one peak but there are limitless paths that you can take to reach it. The secret, they say, is to find your own path and stick to it. What they don’t tell you is that the path is invisible. If you find it, or imagine you’ve found it, you follow the path in the dark with nothing to guide you but self-belief.”

— Chloe Thurlow

162. “An erotic photograph is like a still from an unfolding story that makes you wonder what has already happened and what is about to happen next.”

— Chloe Thurlow

163. “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

164. “The best way to get over one man is to go down on another.”

— Chloe Thurlow

165. “Words want to be sampled, relished, remembered; they need breathing space in the shape of commas, colons, semi-colons and full stops. Words are individual. They are content to string along together in sentences and paragraphs, but remain mavericks, outsiders beyond the crowd, the mob, the gang. A long novel begins with the first word.”

— Chloe Thurlow

166. “Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica.”

— Chloe Thurlow

167. “The more they erect barriers, the more we feel inclined to pull them down. If the barriers are too high, we will go under them. If the barriers are too deep, we will learn to fly. If your heart is set on freedom, no cage will ever keep you in.”

— Chloe Thurlow

168. “The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it.”

— Chloe Thurlow

169. “There are many kinds of love and many kinds of lovers. You just have too find the right one for you.”

— Chloe Thurlow

170. “Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying and the landing is like a glimpse of the divine.”

— Chloe Thurlow

171. “You feel vulnerable but also liberated when you are naked and the man you are with is dressed.”

— Chloe Thurlow

172. “You undress a woman in the same way that you would open a magic box sealed by an angel’s kiss.”

— Chloe Thurlow

173. “You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings.”

— Chloe Thurlow

174. “Once you know who you are you can let go of the things you crave and just be yourself.”

— Chloe Thurlow

175. “What do girls want? That’s easy to answer. They want the same as men. They just want it more often.”

— Chloe Thurlow

176. “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

177. “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

178. “To realise your ambitions, you must take a few minutes each day to meditate on your ultimate goal, not doing anything, just thinking about it. You must try to imagine how you will feel when you achieve your dreams, and that feeling is like a memo in the mind reminding your subconscious to stay the course.”

— Chloe Thurlow

179. “Empty lipstick cases are like spent cartridges from the eternal war that is love. A used tube has the quality of those books you are reluctant to give away and they line the shelves in my bathroom, mementos of nights to remember.”

— Chloe Thurlow

180. “Anything forbidden takes on a significance that draws us into its embrace.”

— Chloe Thurlow

181. “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

182. “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

183. “People live their lives without ever knowing who they really are.”

— Chloe Thurlow

184. “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

185. “Inside every great writer there is a naked girl trying to get out.”

— Chloe Thurlow

186. “When we look in the mirror what we see is a version of who we imagine we are. If we imagine we are beautiful, we find beauty. If we imagine we look tired and strained, we see someone tired and strained. The mirror does not reflect back some axiomatic truth. It reflects a version of what it sees that changes instantly.”

— Chloe Thurlow

187. “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

188. “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

189. “First love belongs to the young.”

— Chloe Thurlow

190. “Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.”

— Chloe Thurlow

191. “Writing is like a religion to those who don’t practise, an act of faith for those who do.”

— Chloe Thurlow

192. “Writers tell you what to think. Great writers make you think.”

— Chloe Thurlow

193. “Write what you want to write. That’s the only advice a writer will ever need.”

— Chloe Thurlow

194. “Being watched in the act of coitus is disconcerting, even for the most brazen. Yet, more than merely making the experience tolerable, masks reveal an innate longing to play to the crowd, to be naked, sweating, screaming in orgasm.”

— Chloe Thurlow

195. “The secret of success isn’t knowing what you want – that will come; it is knowing what you don’t want.”

— Chloe Thurlow

196. “Just as the act of love should never be rushed – except between floors in an elevator, or with a stranger on a train – you should undress a woman with the same slow devotion she has shown in getting dressed.”

— Chloe Thurlow

197. “What’s real and what’s unreal are like two balls that you alternatively toss in the air, catching one as you throw up the other.”

— Chloe Thurlow

198. “Each stranger is like an unexplored continent whose depths you want to explore before you plant your flag in his heart.”

— Chloe Thurlow

199. “He said: I don’t like to read. And I said, honey, you haven’t found the right girl.”

— Chloe Thurlow

200. “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