Chloe Thurlow Quotes

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.

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

I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.

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...

Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.

Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness.

There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.

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.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial.

Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure.

Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves.

Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others.

It's fun being a girl.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

An attractive woman becomes beautiful when she's happy and in love.

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

I'm my characters' galley slave.

The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it.

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.

Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.

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

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

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it.

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.

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

Always say yes and try before you say no.

To be or not to be what exactly?

Photographs shape the past in our own image.

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.

When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living.

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence.

From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.

Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need.

If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion.

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.

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

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

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.

Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all.

Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.