Chloe Thurlow Quotes & Sayings

Autobiography is a precious broken vase pieced painstakingly together still showing the chips and cracks. It is a broken truth revealing snapshots of a cracked and chipped life pieced pieced painstakingly together. — 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

Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires. — Chloe Thurlow

Good writing like good sex requires discipline. — Chloe Thurlow

Love and being in love are not the same thing. The 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

There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing. — Chloe Thurlow

Writing a novel is like having a terrible illness. Every time you feel as if you are recovering, you have to start a new chapter, get over the setbacks endured by your heroine (you feel her pain) and set her up for more suffering. Conflict is the oil of fiction and in a romance, someone always needs a cuddle. — Chloe Thurlow

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

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

When you take care of your horse, your horse takes care of you. You can say that about no other creature on the planet. — Chloe Thurlow

Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right thing, and I had a feeling that the right thing is always going to be the wrong thing, that you find yourself by stepping out of yourself. — Chloe Thurlow

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

I was just getting to the good bit when I heard the sound of his footsteps approaching and wasn't sure whether I would rather be alone with him or alone to finish my book. Men come and go. A good book lasts forever. — Chloe Thurlow

Love is possession, a sort of vanity. — Chloe Thurlow

The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kingdom. Lao-tsu replied that he should rule the kingdom in the way you would cook a small fish. How do you cook a small fish? In the steady, cautious, caring way you undress a woman. — Chloe Thurlow

The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it. — Chloe Thurlow

It's fun being a girl. — Chloe Thurlow

We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses. — 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

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

Spanking must be steady, rhythmic, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, moving from one area to another until both cheeks glow with a rosy bloom that lights the charge and sends the electric message to the restless clitoris. — Chloe Thurlow

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

He tastes of rice with a touch of saffron. He says I taste of seafood. I guess we'd make a good paella. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Getting dressed starts with shoes. Getting undressed ends with shoes. — Chloe Thurlow

There comes a moment, after you have made love, after you have kissed the after love kiss, a moment when he is about to say something and stops himself. He sort of mumbles and shakes his head. You look deep into his eyes and what you see is the future. That's when you know. — Chloe Thurlow

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

At the moment of orgasm you are living fully and totally in the present. An orgasm is anticipated, like the sunrise on a new day, and unexpected, like winning a prize in a competition you can't recall having entered. Time freezes and there isn't a feeling of loss, a void, a little death, but a reminder that of all human activity, none is more perfect. — Chloe Thurlow

The best position for spanking girls is over the knees in such a way that your fingertips and toes just touch the ground and your bottom is at an angle that makes it easy for the spanker to maintain a metronome beat. There is something overwhelmingly feminine being exposed in this way, breasts full and pendulous, eyes pressed shut, your mind clear and your body free to plunge into absolute sensation. — Chloe Thurlow

One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop. — Chloe Thurlow

If you are having an affair, it could save your relationship. If you are not having an affair, and your relationship is rocky, then perhaps you should. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications. — Chloe Thurlow

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

They say the best things in life are free, and they are if you can afford them. — Chloe Thurlow

With a man, pleasure ends at the moment of his orgasm. With a woman, pleasure begins at the point of her orgasm. — Chloe Thurlow

I began to write and came to see that writing has the same laws as nature. The simplest way to say something is always the best. Is that simple enough? — Chloe Thurlow

Don't spit, swallow: there is protein and other good stuff in male semen; it's an acquired taste and, once acquired, totally addictive. — Chloe Thurlow

Porn is about orgasm. Erotica is about suspending orgasm. — Chloe Thurlow

Anything forbidden takes on a significance that draws us into its embrace. — Chloe Thurlow

The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves. — Chloe Thurlow

If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried. — 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

In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique. — 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

A novel is a wish list of who you subliminally want to be and can be. Writing is an arrogant pursuit. In the secret heart of every novelist there are two people: a politician and a philosopher certain that he/she knows best while, at the same time, remains an outsider who believes nothing matters much, and few things matter at all. — Chloe Thurlow

It struck me that my backside was my best asset and that keeping it hidden would be like Oedipus pulling out his eyes so that he couldn't see the errors of the past. — Chloe Thurlow

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. — 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

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

Inside every great writer there is a naked girl trying to get out. — 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

Cunnilingus is a girl's best friend. Cunnilingus is life. Everything else is just waiting. An orgasm during cunnilingus turns you into an angel. You grow wings and glimpse paradise. — Chloe Thurlow

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

When you have your first virgin orgasm it's like seeing a mirror reflecting all the good things life has in store. — Chloe Thurlow

If you are not happy with everything you have you become everything you lack. — Chloe Thurlow

Love hurts. First love is excruciating. Like being burned in orange flames and then cast into icy water. Your emotions change from one second to the next. You can't sleep. You never sleep. First love is a form of dying and being reborn. — Chloe Thurlow

A mask tempts the wearer to play out carnal fantasies and, come daylight, the perfume of a stranger's sex on your flesh and clothes can be blamed or thanked on the metamorphosis stirred by the mystery of the mask. — Chloe Thurlow

You feel vulnerable but also liberated when you are naked and the man you are with is dressed. — Chloe Thurlow

I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex. — Chloe Thurlow

I followed him into the shadows asking myself why I had said that; why, when you clearly like someone, there is an absurd inclination to show otherwise. We reveal false versions of ourselves, a protective veil we weave with words, then wonder why there are misunderstandings. — Chloe Thurlow

Life is a maze from which we never escape. Every decision takes us in a different direction and every time we turn one way we could just as easily have turned the other. — 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

Women who read are dangerous. Women who write are to be avoided. — Chloe Thurlow

At 14, I started sneaking behind the dormitories at school to smoke and I guess I just never got out of the habit. It's that sense of doing something that you shouldn't be doing that appeals to me. Appeals to most of us, I guess. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly removed from the treasures they conceal. When you undress a woman you are opening the drapes in a darkened room to gaze upon a glimpse of paradise. — 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

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

Love is war. The best tactic in attack is surrender. — Chloe Thurlow

The secret is to become someone else, something else. All sex grows dull. You renew it by reinventing yourself, and as a new character, you have new urges. I adore being a rabbit. — Chloe Thurlow

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

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

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 search for the truth, you begin to believe in the search and lose sight of the truth. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Underwear is the female second skin. — Chloe Thurlow

Nothing is better than sex and nothing is exactly like it. — 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

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

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

And as he walked through the snow his footsteps disappeared behind him. He felt at that moment that he was coming from nowhere and going nowhere, that life isn't a dream or a fantasy, it is a long trudge through falling snow. — Chloe Thurlow

Inner beauty is never found in the mirror. — Chloe Thurlow

There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the way the smoke rises in curls, that feeling of peace as the nicotine hits the back of the throat. I will give up smoking when they invent something better than smoking. — Chloe Thurlow

Your facial lips and the butterfly lips of your vagina are connected by a fine invisible circuit. When you take a hard cock into your mouth, the feeling of pleasure zips in pulsing waves down through your body and rings the bell of your clitoris. The vulva swells with blood and the sensation is carnal, exquisite, the essence of femininity. — Chloe Thurlow

A mask is a mirror. The masquerade is the only time I am me and it doesn't matter how many men I have sex with or how many girls I touch, I want more. — Chloe Thurlow

Lipstick stains on a cigarette filter summons to mind noir evenings of decadence. A girl with carmine lips smoking is obviously a girl who does not intend to go home alone that night. — Chloe Thurlow

He held me still and spanked me again, really hard, the sound vibrating around the room. I felt dizzy. My throat was dry and suddenly the pain turned to an unexpected pleasure. — 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

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

Blindfolded, your feelings are enhanced. You see less, you see nothing, but you feel more. You feel everything. — Chloe Thurlow

Art in order to move you has to be political or sexual - whether it is on canvas, in the drum of the cello, in the words of the poet. If it doesn't move you, what is the point? And if it does move you, what is the point? The point is to touch your senses, your soul. To carve, as a knife in the right hands, carves beauty from a block of wood. — Chloe Thurlow

Love like the sun can't be held down or captured. Love has no weight nor depth, no height, no length, no matter. Love is like a spark of inspiration, the flittering touch of a butterfly's wing, a sudden, unexpected, ephemeral flash of lightning. Grab it when you can. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Each clip and zip and fastening, each button and bow, each stretch of elastic as you undress a woman reveals hidden treasure, a clavicle, a shoulder blade, the shadowy line of a breast, a hip bone carved by Michelangelo, the discreet charms and mystery of the navel, a neglected erogenous zone cherished by the Ancient Greeks. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Nothing really matters much and much doesn't really matter at all. — Chloe Thurlow