{"author":"Chloe Thurlow","author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow","total_quotes":119,"quotes":[{"text":"I 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.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["flee","loneliness","longing"],"id":5462,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"Man 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.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["love-hurts","love"],"id":6665,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"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.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["monsters","monsters-within","success"],"id":11650,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["woman","woman-s-strength"],"id":12796,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"The 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.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["love-hurts"],"id":14454,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["life-experience","life-philosophy"],"id":24123,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"What is love? Imagine a helium balloon tied down and then you cut the ropes on a windy day. That is love.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["love-hurts","love"],"id":24475,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"Two spacemen touching in anti-gravity is like a kiss. But then, there is nothing like a kiss. A kiss is a rare bird. The first sip of champagne. The fleeting glimpse of a shooting star. The kiss is uniquely human. We exchange bodily fluids with a kiss. A great kiss is like eating melon on a picnic. Like diving into a warm sea. A French kiss is a battle of tongues where everyone wins.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["judas-kiss","kiss","kissing"],"id":36289,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["writing","writing-life"],"id":38608,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"},{"text":"Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.","author":"Chloe Thurlow","tags":["chloethurlow","literature","philosophy"],"id":39669,"author_id":"Chloe+Thurlow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}