“To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“First love is stripping down everything to essential truths, setting aside your fears and doubts and seeing who you are in someone else's eyes.… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“The touch of his fingertips on my back is like a great cellist brushing the strings of his instrument, or a watchmaker turning a… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Where there's smoke there's fire. Where there's fire there's passion. Where there's passion there's a girl smoking.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“The moment of orgasm is like the first dramatic moment of birth when you draw breath and scream out that you are alive. It… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“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… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share
“When you fall in love, everything is impregnated with new meaning. It is as if you suddenly have borderline personality disorder.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“When his hand came down across my bottom the first time I thought I was going to die. But the pain passed, transmuted as if my some alchemical wizardry, and for a moment I experienced a surreal satisfaction in being bent over in this way without rights or choices, past or future. In pain you are living in the present… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share
“The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, pursue and achieve, love and propagate, age and fade unfulfilled and uncertain what it has all been for. We swallow the operating system with our mother's milk and sleepwalk into… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share
“Smoking can kill you, he said, and I replied: sounds better than being bored to death” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
