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

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

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

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.

— Chloe Thurlow

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

— Chloe Thurlow

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

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

— 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

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