Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Ooh, look at me. I studied with Americans and I know how biology works.”

— Chloe Gong

102. “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

103. “He claimed to have done it for you,” Juliette said quietly. “He took you into a period of riches, but now you are here, back where you began, and your son is dead.”

— Chloe Gong

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

108. “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

109. “Suddenly, Anton turns, nudging his shoulder closer toward her. Calla snatches her hand back with a start, but he’s not stirring against her touch. He has not awakened at all: he only adjusts until he is facing her, eyes still closed. Before Calla can react, Anton draws her near, seeking her body amid the sheets. He reaches for her, an arm curling around her waist, solid and steady. Even asleep, he reaches for her.”

— Chloe Gong

110. “Lovers turned to strangers.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

112. “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

113. “Do not lie to save your honor.” Rosalind pointed a sharp fingernail. “You kill because you enjoy it. I’m warning you. Your name cannot protect you for long.”

— Chloe Gong

114. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

120. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

126. “It breathes in. It slinks closer. Its first breath transforms into a cold breeze, hurtling into the streets and brushing the ankles of those unfortunate enough to be stumbling home during the devil’s hour. 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

127. “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

128. “I’ve seen what love does. It’s powerful. It’s selfish. It will draw us away from the battlefield, and we can’t allow that.”

— Chloe Gong

129. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

130. “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

131. “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

132. “But the thought of being associated with that other version of herself was horrifying now. That Rosaland was an enemy, someone she had to push farther and farther into the recesses of her mind, someone she could never think about too much lest she make a return. The Rosalind who was here today could never reacquaint herself with her former remnant; she was too busy trying to fix that girl’s damn mistakes.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

134. “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?”

— Chloe Gong

135. “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

136. “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

137. “Don’t” – he swung again – “touch” – another hard thwack – “my” – the crate broke into two pieces – “wife.”

— Chloe Gong

138. “No matter how lightly he wanted to take the world, the world came barreling toward him at breakneck speed every second day.”

— Chloe Gong

139. “Together or not at all, doragaya.”

— Chloe Gong

140. “It is too late now.” The messenger tried to writhe about. “Lord Cai wanted confirmation and confession, but Tyler will have you answer for your insolence. You dare threaten the Scarlet Gang, you pay with blood and fire.”

— Chloe Gong

141. “Orion breathed out. “There is no trick,” he said. “I allow this because I love you.”

— Chloe Gong

142. “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. Maybe then she wouldn’t be hearing Roma’s voice in her head over and over again, taking up every inch of her thoughts.”

— Chloe Gong

143. “Adequately expensive. Not expensive enough to verge onto the point of outrage.”

— Chloe Gong

144. “Beautiful. Arrogant. Conniving. In this decade, who wasn’t?”

— Chloe Gong

145. “A revolution is never pretty. Nor is it clean, quiet, peaceful.”

— Chloe Gong

146. “Of course it was hard for him to hurt her now. It went against every fiber of his being. Every cell, every nerve – they had grown into place with one mantra: protect her, protect her.”

— Chloe Gong

147. “Anything would be better than standing motionless. When Juliette wanted to blow up in frustration, the only solution was blowing something else up.”

— Chloe Gong

148. “Because she didn’t want to. Because she didn’t want to accept it. Because she had made such a habit out of lying and withholding, what was one more?”

— Chloe Gong

149. “When they stood like this, close enough that their heartbeats were in conversation, Juliette did not know what coldness was.”

— Chloe Gong

150. “The years were wearing on. They were chidren growing into adult faces, waiting for a moment of contentment that might never come.”

— Chloe Gong