Chloe Thurlow Quotes

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