01UndatedI thought that love would last forever. But nothing is forever. Life is not forever. The only reliable permanence is change. Love hurts because change is painful. Love hurts because love lost is an assault on our ego. We fear that we will fail again and those who live in fear of failure slowly but inevitably fail.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
02UndatedMan was not born to be monogamous. What has changed in the 21st century – at 21 the world surely has come of age – is the understanding that woman is not meant to be monogamous either. Just as love hurts, new love heals.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
03UndatedWhile 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedLove is not a spaceship you construct and then fly off together into the stars. Love is a soap bubble that bursts in the air. Love is the first winter snowflake that falls into you palm, a mirage that glows in the sun and fades in the shadows.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
05UndatedLove enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
06UndatedLove and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
07UndatedWhat is love? Imagine a helium balloon tied down and then you cut the ropes on a windy day. That is love.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
08UndatedI understood how strangers met and fell into bed, not how they met and fell in love. I wasn't sure what falling in love meant. The very notion seemed so corny, so arbitrary, so fragile.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
09UndatedI 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 spearminty tongue when we kissed, his male sweat, the outdoor vanilla tang of his semen.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
11UndatedIs this love? The light looks different. Actually the shade looks different. I feel different. Everything is just so different I don't know where to begin...Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
12UndatedI was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen it happens it happens instantly. It's like diving into a pool of warm silky water, like flying through the air on invisible wings, like shedding an old skin and growing a new one. When you fall in love the spirals of your DNA unwind and rewind in the opposite direction. What was black becomes white.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
14UndatedThe way the leaves on the trees tremble in the passing air is the way love reaches you, from all directions at once, mysterious, overwhelming, indescribable. To be in love is to find something you didn't know was missing.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
15UndatedI was always in love with love and now I am in love. In love, everything looks different. Everything tastes different. It is as if you have been reborn, transformed, become another person whom you don't completely recognise.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
16UndatedThe moment he left the warm sheets and the door clicked shut, I had that feeling you get when you are lost in a strange town at night. I curled into the chair where he had watched me undress and tears wet my cheeks. Then I dried my eyes, I looked in the mirror, and I said these two words. Never again.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
17UndatedIn our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
18UndatedWe are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
19UndatedIf life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
21UndatedFrom a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
22UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
23UndatedI had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
24UndatedThe only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
