Top 250 Chloe Gong Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “There are no good kings, but there are fair ones.”

— Chloe Gong

102. “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.”

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

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

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106. “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.”

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

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109. “Juliette wouldn’t dare because no matter how big her talk was, she still couldn’t separate the hatred broiling in her stomach with the sudden lurch of adrenaline that came to life with his proximity. If her body refused to forget who Roma once was to her, how was she to make those same limbs rebel from their nature, make them destroy him? “Penny for your thoughts?”

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110. “Maybe we don’t have to be like this forever, wielded around as national tools. Maybe we can just be people.”

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111. “Roma was not afraid. He only feared the power of others. Monsters and things that walked the night were strong, but they were not powerful. There was a difference.”

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112. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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118. “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.”

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119. “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.”

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120. “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?”

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121. “Calla removes the cigarette from her lips and, with the puff of smoke still in her lungs, leans forward and kisses him. Despite his words, he lets her release right into him, taking the toxins down his throat. He’ll let her poison him, swallow everything down like this is the sweetest liquor he has ever tasted.”

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122. “You can’t ask me not to love you by keeping me at arm’s length. I’ll love you anyway.”

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123. “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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124. “May I make a request, Miss Cai?” “I already told you – ” Paul smiled. “Can I see you again?” Juliette slammed the door shut. “Absolutely not.”

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125. “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.”

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126. “Now look at that.” Roma released one of her hands from his grip, only so his own was free to grasp her chin lightly. “I count this as a victory.”

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127. “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.”

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

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129. “A love like theirs was never going to survive in a city divided by hated. This would be the death of them all.”

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “We can fight monsters, not the turning tide of a revolution.”

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133. “Do you think of me as some all-controlling harpy wife?”

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

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135. “But standing there, in front of her, was the reason for everything she had done, and to look upon him alive and well was enough to push back the loathing she had for the blood on her hand, for the city that had made her into this monster of a person.”

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

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

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138. “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.”

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

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140. “They have always said that Shanghai is an ugly daughter, but as the years grow on, it isn’t enough anymore to characterize this city as merely one entity. This place rumbles on Western idealism and Eastern labor, hateful of its split and unable to function without it, multiple facets fighting and grappling.”

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141. “Calla can handle pain. She can handle blood. But this – this is somehow all and none of that at once, a wrenching in her very soul. This is tenderness. And she is more afraid of it than anything else in their forsaken kingdom.”

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

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143. “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.”

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

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

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146. “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.”

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

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

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149. “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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150. “You can call a rose something else, but it remains yet a rose.”

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