Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I love you, he thought. Do you know? Have you always known? Have I always known?”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

107. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

110. “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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

119. “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

120. “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

121. “Nothing in this world is complicated, only misunderstood.”

— Chloe Gong

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

129. “The state will continue to suppress us. The law will continue to cheat us. Anyone who deems themselves a savior of this city is a fraud. All kings are tyrants; all rulers are thieves. It is not peace nor gain that revolution shall aim for. It is only freedom.”

— Chloe Gong

130. “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

131. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

133. “It had always been Marshall.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

135. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

137. “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

138. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

140. “And maybe he was a coward. He was a coward who couldn’t stop loving a wicked thing.”

— Chloe Gong

141. “How dare they label themselves the people of this city, as if they did not sail in with cannons and forced entry, as if they are not here now only because they come from those who lit the first fires.”

— Chloe Gong

142. “We can fight monsters, not the turning tide of a revolution.”

— Chloe Gong

143. “He loves her the way no one can let go of the first person they ever wholly adored.”

— Chloe Gong

144. “Do I? she wanted to say. Would I be less if I sounded like my mother, my father, and all those in this city who were forced to learn more than one language, unlike you?”

— Chloe Gong

145. “Power is never worth it! You keep making trades upon trades, and you get nothing in return. Roma is running from it. Juliette is running from it. What makes you think you can handle.”

— Chloe Gong

146. “Benedikt was staring.”

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147. “In her head, she still liked tjhe sound of Juliette Montagova.”

— Chloe Gong

148. “Juliette swallowed hard. She could not. She would not. She was the heir to the Scarlet Gang. Heir of mobsters and merchants and monsters, each and every one of them, blood frothing at the mouth. She kneeled to no one.”

— Chloe Gong

149. “As always, when somebody said not to panic, the first thing one did was panic.”

— Chloe Gong

150. “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