Chloe Thurlow Quotes

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

~ 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

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

~ Chloe Thurlow

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

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

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

~ Chloe Thurlow

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

~ 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