Chloe Thurlow quotes:

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.

One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop.

The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.

Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness.

I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.

Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others.

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

It seems to me the fence separating us from who we are and who we can be is not a straight line, not erect, but something wavering and distant, a reflection of who we are and what we fear.

And as he walked through the snow his footsteps disappeared behind him. He felt at that moment that he was coming from nowhere and going nowhere, that life isn't a dream or a fantasy, it is a long trudge through falling snow.

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.