Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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?”

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53. “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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54. “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.”

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

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

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57. “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.”

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58. “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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59. “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.”

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

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

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

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63. “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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64. “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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65. “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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66. “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.”

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67. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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74. “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.”

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

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

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77. “Jealousy is a good look on you.”

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

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80. “Don’t you dare,” Roma said. “Don’t you dare fall apart now, dorogaya.”

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

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

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83. “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.”

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

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85. “She was so damn afraid of being punished for her choices, and if it were easier to shut down, then why would she not? If there were an easier way to live, to choose ease over pain, how could she not?”

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86. “Lovers turned to strangers.”

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87. “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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88. “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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89. “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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90. “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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91. “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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92. “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.”

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93. “So long as he hates me, we are safe. If we love again... this city may just kill us both for daring to hope.”

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

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

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96. “War rages on, and the city tells the tale of Roma and Juliette like some folk song passed between rickshaw runners on their breaks. They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who had dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.”

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

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

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

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100. “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?”

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