Chloe Thurlow > Quotes

“Masks reveal. They don’t conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“The mask in which you choose to disguise yourself uncovers who you subconsciously are or want to be. Masks reveal in the eyes the face that lies hidden as if the mask is a dark glass mirroring your soul.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“When you fall in love, everything is impregnated with new meaning. It is as if you suddenly have borderline personality disorder.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade

“I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“A mask is not to disguise who you are but to show who you really are.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Sophie's Secret

“I am inclined to disagree with Jung when he says the Shadow is the person that we’d rather not be. The Shadow is that unadorned part of ourself, it is flexible the way it stretches and contorts. The Shadow is our dark side, the side we hide and climb into, not the person that we would rather not be, but the person we would rather be.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“Red goes with everything and red goes with nothing.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Smoking can kill you, he said, and I replied: sounds better than being bored to death”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today’s world, everyone wears a mask.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Don’t spit, swallow: there is protein and other good stuff in male semen; it’s an acquired taste and, once acquired, totally addictive.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Gift of Girls

“You don't feel yourself falling in love, like it's a journey, a process; on the contrary, it hits you like a sudden ague, a fever, the realisation that your life will never be the same again.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“The first time I was spanked I cried. The second time I cried out for more.”
― Chloe Thurlow, A Girl's Adventures

“There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the way the smoke rises in curls, that feeling of peace as the nicotine hits the back of the throat. I will give up smoking when they invent something better than smoking.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Being a Girl

“Inner beauty is never found in the mirror.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Naked I felt as if my soul was exposed, my thoughts could be read. In the mask I felt protected. I eased the elastic strap over my head, adjusted the fascia to my cheekbones and glanced again at the mirror. The acid in my tummy had gone. Masked I am me. Masked I can do anything.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Sophie's Secret

“Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rhythm; the feeling of the rain on your face on sunny days. Words are cruel and spiteful sometimes, wise and loving at others.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“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, Being a Girl

“Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going.”
― Chloe Thurlow, A Girl's Adventures

“I told her the clitoris is like a Bonsai tree that needs constant tending and the g-spot is an unexplored island waiting to have a flag pinned on its peak. She laughed and said I should be a poet. Then we went to bed and crossed the sheets as if it were a new continent we had just discovered.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Sophie's Secret

“Once we are aware that our nudity makes us objects of desire, we become naked.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Anything forbidden takes on a significance that draws us into its embrace.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“There is a moment when you realise you are not doing what you want to do or being who you want to be. It is at that moment that you become who you really are.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love