“Man was not born to be monogamous. What has changed in the 21st century – at 21 the world surely has come of age – is the understanding that woman is not meant to be monogamous either. Just as love hurts, new love heals.”
Chloe Thurlow“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“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“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“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.”
Chloe Thurlow“A really good kiss is like a secret you want to share. A really good kiss reminds you why it’s hard to decide on the right lipstick. The first kiss stays in you’re mind – forever. Time expands with a really good kiss and you add another few seconds to the end of your life.”
Chloe Thurlow, Being a Girl“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, Being a Girl“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, Being a Girl“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, Being a Girl“The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it.”
Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade“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, Katie in Love