If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had imagined my own ghost and seen my vanishing footsteps. When you don't belong anywhere it doesn't matter where you are or where you go, if you stay or move on. You arrive at a place where the view forwards and backwards is the same, where the sun rises in the east one day and the west the next, where you stop planning and live like the birds and beasts by intuition and instinct.

— Chloe Thurlow

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

— Chloe Thurlow

If sex is a journey, orgasm is the both the purpose and journey's end.

— 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

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still, and your body enters a state of non-being.

— Chloe Thurlow

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

— 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

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

I had avoided writing about love. I had never sensed that rush and buzz that comes with love, the release into the brain of body chemicals, pheromones and dopamine - the taste of love to which I was becoming addicted, his spearmint tongue when we kissed, his male sweat, the outdoor vanilla tang of his semen.

— Chloe Thurlow

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

— Chloe Thurlow