The Secret Life of Girls Quotes

“In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Smoking can kill you, he said, and I replied: sounds better than being bored to death”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Anything forbidden takes on a significance that draws us into its embrace.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“It's fun being a girl.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“There is nothing more feminine than a blowjob. You naked on your knees. Your guy with his hand resting on the back of your head. A really good blowjob confirms some primal nostalgia. It puts the world in balance.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“I started smoking because I thought it was sexy. Now I smoke because I feel sexy when I'm smoking. Is that what they call addiction?”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. When you undress a woman you enter her subconscious kingdom, her scents, her secrets and her fantasy.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Beautiful girls – the true beauties – are rarely vain, arrogant, poseurs. It is the girl who makes disproportionate efforts with makeup, clothes, heels and hair who suffers these conceits. They are girls who have made themselves appear beautiful without ever reaching the exalted status of being beautiful girls.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“When you undress a woman you discover in her lingerie clues to her mood and desires. These whispers of silk and satin are our armour, our feathers and fantasy – black-sexy, pink-girlie, white-virginal, red-anything might happen and (we pray) almost certainly will.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Being spanked is the ultimate obedience, the final pleasure. It is life on the highwire.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“The best way to get over one man is to go down on another.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Girls now lose their virginity long before they lose their innocence.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“The kiss is the greatest of gifts, a miracle, uniquely human. A kiss beneath the mistletoe. A kiss after midnight. A kiss before dying. The devil's kiss. As a picture tells a thousand words, so a kiss says everything that's important. I am told prostitutes never kiss their clients. It is too personal, too human. We kiss to say I love you. We kiss the rings of the self-important. The feet of conquerors. The rich dark earth when we reach the promised land. We kiss our hands and wave as loved ones begin a journey. We kiss strangers before dawn in the first hours of a New Year because our wintry lips are incomplete until they are oiled by a kiss.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“When you feel a snake slither down your spine and your nipples are itchy, when your armpits tingle and your mouth is dry when you see him, that's first love.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“What constitutes a beautiful girl? It is not merely an anatomical or aesthetic quality. Beautiful girls have an inner beauty, an inner light that defeats the darkness. It is a way of walking, smiling, of being. They have a certain smell, sweet as baby breath. They radiate good will, kindness, selflessness.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“When the tip of his tongue touches the little hard nub of my clitoris I feel the same jolt in my sex as I do in my throat when I light up. There must be a connection.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“When you have your first virgin orgasm it's like seeing a mirror reflecting all the good things life has in store.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly removed from the treasures they conceal. When you undress a woman you are opening the drapes in a darkened room to gaze upon a glimpse of paradise.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Underwear is the female second skin.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Each clip and zip and fastening, each button and bow, each stretch of elastic as you undress a woman reveals hidden treasure, a clavicle, a shoulder blade, the shadowy line of a breast, a hip bone carved by Michelangelo, the discreet charms and mystery of the navel, a neglected erogenous zone cherished by the Ancient Greeks.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“First love belongs to the young.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“The moment of orgasm is like the first dramatic moment of birth when you draw breath and scream out that you are alive. It is hard to imagine the moment when you fade back into the vacuum and draw your last breath.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Bella had come to realize that instincts were her true voice speaking to her and that she should always act on her instincts.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“There was a time when the only thing I liked about sex was the cigarette after. Then I grew up and gave up smoking.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls