Top 250 Chloe Gong Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “There was so much luck to be had in the genetic lottery; one different code and it was a whole lifetime of forced adaptation.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

53. “Hello, stranger.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

55. “Your life is mine as mine is yours,” she said, very seriously. “We are bound in duty if not in matrimony. I won’t make the same mistake twice.”

— Chloe Gong

56. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

58. “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

59. “Juliette breathed in and found her lungs to be horribly tight. Could she never be both? Was she doomed to choose one country or the other? Be an American or nothing?”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

63. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

64. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

65. “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

66. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

67. “Wasn’t playing with her heart once enough? Hadn’t he already torn her into two and left her to the wolves once before?”

— Chloe Gong

68. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

69. “You are bound to me in matrimony. If you break it and descend into another plane of existence, I will chase after you and snatch you back.”

— Chloe Gong

70. “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

71. “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

72. “Who did this to you?” Orion’s voice was violently quiet. “I’ll kill them.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— 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.”

— Chloe Gong

76. “My darling, darling Juliette.”

— Chloe Gong

77. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

79. “I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.”

— Chloe Gong

80. “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

81. “Once, a long time ago, at the back of a library while a storm raged on outside, Juliette had asked Roma, “Do you ever imagine what life would be like if you had a different last name?” “All the time. Don’t you?” Juliette had thought about it. “Only sometimes. Then I consider all that I would miss out on without it. What would I be if I weren’t a Cai?” Roma had lifted onto his elbow. “You could be a Montagov.” “Don’t be ridiculous.”

— Chloe Gong

82. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

85. “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

86. “Attached to High Tide?” she echoed, her voice teasing. “Have you grown attached to me, Hong Liwen?” “Yes.” His reply came easily. It didn’t sound like he was teasing her in return. “I have.”

— Chloe Gong

87. “He wanted to scream and rage. He wanted to scream at Juliette until his lungs grew hoarse. Only he knew that if he screamed I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I still love you so much that I hate you for it.”

— Chloe Gong

88. “Tyler would do all in his power to ensure the survival of the Scarlet Gang, while Juliette no longer had a single desire to be fighting the blood feud, not when it was so damn pointless.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

90. “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?”

— Chloe Gong

91. “They trained her for war. And she rose up to wage it on them.”

— Chloe Gong

92. “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

93. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

95. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

97. “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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98. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

99. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong