Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I l still love you so much that I hate you for it.”

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2. “Even the land of dreams needs to wake up sometimes.”

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3. “Nothing in this world is complicated, only misunderstood.”

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4. “In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”

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5. “You don’t have to justify yourself. You feel what you feel. You’ll drive yourself made otherwise.”

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6. “Even the thickest blood from the womb could run thin if given the empty space to bleed.”

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7. “There exactly is your problem. You think everything can only be good or bad, heroic or evil. I have taken you in to teach you to be a leader, and you cannot stay true to your word.”

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8. “You destroy me and then you kiss me. You give me a reason to hat you and then you give me a reason to love you. Is this a lie or the truth? Is the a ploy or your heart reaching for me?”

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9. “These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”

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10. “Lady Fortune, you play foul.”

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11. “You know how it is – or maybe you don’t. A temporary thing for a temporary place, but now the temporary thing is burrowed in so deep it cannot be removed.”

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12. “You cannot save the world. You can try to save one thing if you must, but it is enough if that one thing is yourself.”

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13. “I take you, Juliette Cai,” Roma whispered in concentration, “to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, until... ” He looked up as he finished the knot. Paused. When he spoke again, he did not look away. “No, scratch that. To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us. In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours. Those are my vows to you.”

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14. “Memories were beastly little creatures, after all – they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”

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15. “And Juliette Cai was not going to accept this. She was not going to lie down and let other people tell her what to do.”

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16. “Roma wasn’t sure if Benedikt and Marshall were fated to eventually kill each other or kiss each other.”

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17. “I was raised in hatred, Roma. I could never be your lover, only your killer.”

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18. “These violent delights have violent ends,” Juliette whispered to herself. She tilted her head up to the clouds, to the light sea breeze blowing in from the Bund and stinging her nose with salt. “You have always known this.”

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19. “The land of dreams. Where men and women in white hoods roam the streets to murder Black folks. Where written laws prohibit the Chinese from stepping upon its shores. Where immigrant children are separated from immigrant mothers on Ellis Island, never to be seen again.”

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20. “This is not a game to me,” Orion cut in. “I would rather die by your hand than have you believe me a traitor. I would rather take a fast bullet than have us pitted on different sides of an agonizing battle.”

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21. “You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”

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22. “And so her twin sister had turned twenty. Rosalind Lang was still nineteen. Rosalind Lang would always be nineteen.”

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23. “She only wanted to be a girl who was deserving of the world.”

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24. “What is family for if not to love us and then break our hearts?”

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25. “I take you, Juliette Cai, to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, until... No, scratch that. To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us. In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours. Those are my vows to you.”

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26. “He would promise to wander the ends of the earth and find where the sky began if it meant she would keep her hand there, if it meant he could drown out the rest of his frantic fears by focusing on the sound of her voice. She was his guiding saint, the Polaris of his heart.”

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27. “You chose me four years ago. Would you choose me still? Would you choose this version of me – these sharp edges and hands far bloodier than yours?”

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28. “Astra inclinant,” he would whisper into the wind, so heartachingly sincere even when quoting in Latin, “sed non obligant.”

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29. “And if you are gunned down because you want to fight a war that doesn’t belong to you, I will never forgive this city. I will tear it to pieces, and you will be to blame!”

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30. “It is never simple as one truth. Nothing ever is.”

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31. “All that is good is gone, or perhaps it never existed. The blood feud kept us apart, forced us onto different sides. I will not allow death to do the same.”

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32. “Keep fighting for love.”

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33. “The blood feud has raged on since the last century. What are we fighting for? Why do we kill one another in a never-ending cycle if we do not know what the original slight was? Why must we remain enemies with the Montagovs when nobody remembers why?”

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34. “She could hardly tell the difference between the times when she was fighting and the times when she was barely holding herself together, crumbled pieces staggering forward step-by-step. Maybe those two were one and the same.”

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35. “Do you not listen to me when I speak?” he answered shakily, his lip quirking up. “I love you. I have always loved you.”

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36. “No, he is mine to deal with. He is mine to destroy.”

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37. “I’ll say it however many times you want. I’ll romance you until you get sick of me. I am horrendously in love with your dreadful face, and we need to go now.”

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38. “That is what this city is. The party at the end of the world.”

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39. “She thought it preposterous that her father had to ask permission to run business on land their ancestors had lived and died on from men who had simply docked their boat here and decided they would like to be in charge now.”

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40. “This is why my betrayal was so terrible. Because you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did.”

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41. “They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.”

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42. “Hello, stranger.”

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43. “The feud keeps taking and hurting and killing and still I couldn’t stop loving you even when I thought I hated you.”

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44. “These days Juliette,” he said, low and warily, “the most dangerous people are the powerful white men who feel as if they have been slighted.”

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45. “They had always been two mirrored souls, the only ones who understood the other in a city that wanted to consume them whole, and now they were joined, mightier when together.”

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46. “Trauma doesn’t have to lead to destruction. Trauma can be the guiding point to something better, something stronger.”

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47. “Entitlement that encouraged their wives to place a delicate handkerchief to their nose and sniff, wholeheartedly believing the tirade was deserved. They believed themselves the rulers of the world – on stolen land in America, on stolen land in Shanghai. Everywhere they went – entitlement. And Juliette was so tired.”

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48. “A rose is a rose, even by another name. But we choose whether we will offer beauty to the world, or if we will use our thorns to sting.”

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49. “Too many kind hearts turn cold every day.”

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50. “Nation over everything. But not you, sweetheart. Never your life in exchange.”

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