Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Trauma doesn’t have to lead to destruction. Trauma can be the guiding point to something better, something stronger.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

55. “You give your word. But you have always been a liar.”

— Chloe Gong

56. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

60. “Ooh, look at me. I studied with Americans and I know how biology works.”

— Chloe Gong

61. “Yet Kathleen still felt a suspicious chill sweep up her spine as she entered the kitchen, dumping the plates in the sink for the kitchen hands to deal with. Had they grown apart? Had Kathleen become too much of a stranger for her sister?”

— Chloe Gong

62. “I love you, he thought. Do you know? Have you always known? Have I always known?”

— Chloe Gong

63. “It’s okay that you’re grumpy. I think it’s very cute –.”

— Chloe Gong

64. “The rich and the foreign, they didn’t truly believe it. To them, this madness sweeping the city was nothing except Chinese nonsense – only to affect the doomed poor, only to touch the believers caught in their tradition. They thought their glistening marble could keep out contagion because the contagion was nothing save the hysteria of savages.”

— Chloe Gong

65. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

68. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

71. “Like twin statues reaching for each other, they both fell asleep at last.”

— Chloe Gong

72. “Juliette had met plenty of men like him in America: men who assumed they had the right to go wherever they wished because the world had been built to favor their civilized etiquette.”

— Chloe Gong

73. “Off with their heads and down with the rich.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

75. “So don’t start believing that skill is all it takes to stay at the top. Loyalty plays its dirty hand too, and it is a fickle, ever-changing thing.”

— Chloe Gong

76. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

77. “Juliette scowled. “Just as they call Shanghai the Paris of the East,” she said. “When are we going to stop letting the colonizers pick the comparisons? Why don’t we ever call Paris the Shanghai of the West?”

— Chloe Gong

78. “Orion couldn’t stop looking at her. Those determined eyes and the set of her brow. Artists would scramble to paint a face like that onto their war posters. Render her expression in vivid enough lines, and the sight alone could lead the world into battle.”

— Chloe Gong

79. “Orion had thrown a crate at him. He swooped down and picked up another, but instead of throwing it he swung his arms and smacked it against the soldiers head spitting: “Don’t” – he swung again – “touch” – another hard whack – “my” – the crate broke into two pieces – “wife”.”

— Chloe Gong

80. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

82. “Because – ” Juliette said. Her voice was no louder than a bare whisper. Yet in the quiet of the alley, with only Tyler’s gasps, she was all that could be heard. “I love him. I love him, Tyler, and you tried to take him from me.”

— Chloe Gong

83. “Juliette Cai,” Dimitri greeted, acting like they were exchanging pleasantries. “I heard you grew up a socialite. Where did you learn to grapple like a street urchin?”

— Chloe Gong

84. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

86. “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

87. “I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai.”

— Chloe Gong

88. “A long time ago, Roma had told Juliette that her anger was like a cold diamond. It was something she could swallow smoothly, something to be placed upon other people, gliding along their skin in glitter and glamour before they realized far too late that the diamond had sliced them into pieces. He had admired her for it. Mostly because his own anger was the precise opposite – an uncontrollable wave of fire that knew no subtlety.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

90. “She had to convince herself. How could she bear to think that he had loved her and yet destroyed her anyway?”

— Chloe Gong

91. “It had always been Marshall.”

— Chloe Gong

92. “Don’t worry,” Alisa whispers. “We will be okay.”

— Chloe Gong

93. “City gangsters had been taking the hit when the warlords in control needed a place to point the finger before the imperialists could say the Chinese couldn’t control their own people and installed intruder governments in the country instead.”

— Chloe Gong

94. “You’re very grumpy. I expected my wife to be less grumpy.”

— Chloe Gong

95. “This is what revolution is, after all. The trailing of blood from door to door, loud and violent until the rich cannot look away.”

— Chloe Gong

96. “It’s Juliette Montagova.” She lifted her hand and waved her fingers, flashing her gold wedding ring while she continued onward and exited the living room. “I’m a married woman. Roma, come help me get the knives, would you?” In that moment, as Roma pushed off the wall and followed her obediently, he fell in love all over again.”

— Chloe Gong

97. “You are my side. It is not betrayal.”

— Chloe Gong

98. “The problem with hatred was that when the initial emotion weakened, the responses still remained. The clenched fist and hot veins, the blurred vision and quickened pulse. And in such remains, Juliette was not in control of what they might develop into.”

— Chloe Gong

99. “She could save herself the agony of hope.”

— Chloe Gong

100. “The city has not grown more violent. It is a matter of its people changing.”

— Chloe Gong