Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “My darling, darling Juliette.”

— Chloe Gong

52. “Fight dirty but fight bravely. Do not fight those who cannot understand what it means to fight. Nurse had known exactly what working for the Scarlet Gang entailed. This man had pulled at a hint of glitter in the ground expecting a Nugget of gold and disturbed a hornet’s nest instead.”

— Chloe Gong

53. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

54. “Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I.”

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55. “There was so much luck to be had in the genetic lottery; one different code and it was a whole lifetime of forced adaptation.”

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

— Chloe Gong

57. “This is why we shall not love more than we need to. Death will come for everyone in the end –.”

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58. “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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59. “Off with their heads and down with the rich.”

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60. “I made a vow to you, Roma.’ She took a step forward. No one stopped her. ‘Where you go, I go. I will not bear a day parted. I will take a dagger to my own heart if I must.”

— Chloe Gong

61. “Juliette embraced danger with open arms. It seemed that Roma couldn’t do so even when his whole world was at risk, even while Alisa was strapped down by her arms and legs.”

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62. “The answer was: yes. But it wasn’t entirely their fault. The Chinese had built the pit, gathered the wood, and lit the match, but it was the foreigners who had come in and poured gasoline upon every surface, letting Shanghai rage into an untamable forest fire of debauchery.”

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63. “Those who do not care, those who are violent, those who delight in that which is terrible” – Marshall shrugged, waving his hands about as he chose the right words – “they thrive. They come outside.”

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64. “You were my first hope that there might be something else... A third category of memory. A future separate from the past. I have spent years thinking that if I just do the right thing, then I can go back to how it used to be. But maybe I don’t want that anymore.”

— Chloe Gong

65. “For months they flirted and pretended and toed the line between enemy and friend, both knowing who the other was but neither admitting to it, both trying to gain something from this friendship but being uncareful, falling too deep without knowing.”

— Chloe Gong

66. “Anyone can be the master to a monster should their heart be wicked enough.”

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67. “She wished she could fill herself up like this. She wished she could press mounds of rich soil into the gaps of her heart, occupying the space until flowers could take root and grow roses.”

— Chloe Gong

68. “Could she never be both? Was she doomed to choose one country or the other? Be an American girl or nothing?”

— Chloe Gong

69. “Do me a favor,” she said dully. “Send Dimitri Voronin my regards when you see him in hell.”

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70. “She was a girl. In their eyes, no matter how legitimate, she would never be good enough.”

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71. “Calla Tuoleimi, princess of Er. She could do nothing on a throne, but she can do everything with a sword in her hand.”

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72. “Broken things called to broken things, tried to slot their shards together in the hopes that they would fit.”

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73. “This place hums to the tune of debauchery. This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment.”

— Chloe Gong

74. “Jealousy is a good look on you.”

— Chloe Gong

75. “It doesn’t take poison to make something lethal. Any substance in large quantities can kill. Something good in large quantities will kill too.”

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76. “Science could tell him that the ground was below his feet and the sky was above his head and the early light of day was upon his back. Roma wouldn’t listen. To him, Juliette was the sun.”

— Chloe Gong

77. “You are a liar, Juliette Cai,” he said. “You lied to me until I wanted you dead.”

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78. “This was her life, this was her city, these were her people, and because she loved them, she had sworn to herself a long time ago that she would do a damn good job of being who she was because she could be no one else.”

— Chloe Gong

79. “You’re okay,” Rosalind repeated more kindly. “You’re going to be okay, I promise.” She smoothed his hair away from his forehead. As soon as he felt her touch, Orion shifted forward, leaning right onto her shoulder.”

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80. “A living thing, when faced with a break or injury, is compelled to heal itself.”

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81. “Then Marshall said, “You forget. I was not raised respectably. I was raised as a gangster.”

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82. “Benedikt snapped. “You don’t joke about that, Marshall. I will not lose you!”

— Chloe Gong

83. “If you decided to run, you might as well keep running until you came to the edge of the world.”

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84. “The vaccine is both legitimate and not... The Larkspur is essentially picking a choosing who lives and who dies...”

— Chloe Gong

85. “I ruined us all for a love not true,” Rosalind whispered. “At the very least, I can still save you.”

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86. “We value order, family, loyalty,” Lady Cai confirmed, “but at the end of the day, we choose to value whatever ensures our survival.”

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87. “Go on,” he says evenly. “Kill me. Fall not a tear. Be the murderous princess they say you are.”

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88. “They say Shanghai stands tall like an emperor’s ugly daughter, its streets sprawling in a manner that only the limbs of a snarling princess could manage. It was not born this way. It used to be beautiful. They used to croon over it, examining the lines of its body and humming beneath their breath, nodding and deciding that it was well suited for children. Then this city mutilated itself with a wide, wide grin.”

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89. “Was the line between enemy and friend horizontal or vertical? Was it a great plain to lumber across or was it a high, high wall – either to be scaled or kicked down in one big blow?”

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90. “Princess of Shanghai, of course.” He withdrew his hand. “Nothing else would be worthy.”

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91. “Given Anton’s childhood, a natural assumption would be that he couldn’t handle bloodshed. But blood is faultless. Blood is only a consequence. Better to draw blood before it can be drawn from you; better to exert power and hold control- to seize power and maintain control.”

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92. “Here she was, harboring this pulsating lump of hatred burning in her stomach that had only gotten hotter and hotter in the years she had been robbed of a confrontation, an explanation, and yet still she did not have the courage to sink her knife right into Roma’s chest, to get revenge in the only way she knew how.”

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93. “They have always said that Shanghai is an ugly daughter, but as the years grow on, it isn’t enough anymore to characterize this city as merely one entity. This place rumbles on Western idealism and Eastern labor, hateful of its split and unable to function without it, multiple facets fighting and grappling.”

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94. “It was only that every time she looked at Roma, she didn’t want to stop looking; she wanted to sit down beside him and bid him never to leave her, to listen to him talk forever and ever and ever.”

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95. “But that was not here yet. That was not the present; that was not this moment, this heartbeat of time locked in by heady breaths and gentle worship. It was distant to Juliette, and she would let it remain at a distance, so long as she could have this- here, now, perfect: her soul as boundless as the sea, her love as deep.”

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96. “If Roma were ever again to run a tender finger down her spine, it would be to count her vertebrae and gauge where he could stab his knife in.”

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97. “Roma Montagov wasn’t the heir scheming in the shadows anymore. It seemed that he was sick of the city seeing him as the one slitting throats in the dark, the one with a heart of coal and the clothing to match.”

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98. “Hatred did have a home in him, however weak the hearth was.”

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99. “It was a reacquaintance, a homecoming. It was her mind whispering, Oh, we are here again – at last.”

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100. “I love you so much it feels like it could consume me.”

— Chloe Gong