Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
70 quotes
"Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica."
"When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself."
"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."
"Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic."
"I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul."
"Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one."
"Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear."
"A rubber doll with a microchip can imitate human flesh without human feeling. Porn leaves an emptiness inside. Erotica sets up a vibration in the mind that sends pulsing waves through the body."
"Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison"
"Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves."
"A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is."
"I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul."
"All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?"
"Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure."
"One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion."
"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."
"Sex is a three letter word even the worst speller in the world can spell."
"You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial."
"Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust."
"The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are."
"If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life."
"You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules."
"There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something."
"Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them."
"It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs."