01UndatedDepression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
03UndatedLife is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
05UndatedWhen you cut the cords on the safety net and walk out on the highwire, you become yourself and become all that you can be and all that you were meant to be. But first, you must cut the cords.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
06UndatedOur 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 the forest of consumer illusion craving shoes, houses, cars, magazines, experiences that endorse our preconceived dreams and opinions. We grow into our parents. We becomes clones, robots, matchstick men thinking and saying the same, feeling the same, behaving the same, appreciating in books and films and art shows those things we already recognize and understand.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
07UndatedIf 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 unvanishing 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 / quote ↗
08UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedInside our mind there is hidden place that contains the mind within the mind. There, you will find another version of yourself that may be your true self. We do not find that self by travelling, by searching. We find that self by sitting still, being quiet and looking inside. Ask yourself: who am I? And your true self will answer.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
10UndatedWhen 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 what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
11UndatedWriters strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
12UndatedThere is a word I have always avoided in my writing, my life, my thoughts. That word is love. What does it mean? How do you deal with it? If you find it and lose it, how do you get over it? Love is something you feel and when you feel it you can’t trust it or define it. How can you sustain love for a long time? A short time? You may love your family, your friends. But you don’t invite them inside your body.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen you can cross the highwire without falling off, you are in a state of perfect balance, perfect grace. It is the same with obedience. When you submit, submit totally, you enter that same equilibrium, surrender and grace. This is the meaning of erotic.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
14UndatedWe are trapped in a net of our our own self-doubt, on the programming force fed to us by parents, schools, society. In a certain light, on certain days, you can see that net. And once you can see it, you can learn to make it go away.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
15UndatedThe seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
17UndatedLove 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 / quote ↗
19UndatedLife is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
20UndatedLife is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
21UndatedA woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
22UndatedYou 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 / quote ↗
23UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
24UndatedYou may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
