Top 250 Chloe Gong Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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.”

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154. “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

155. “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

156. “I will love you if I please. I will make you my altar, I’ll put you above everything else in this world, I’ll revel in every morsel you are made of. It’s simple – just tell me you don’t feel the same, and I’ll let you go. But I won’t accept anything else. I won’t accept your refusal on the make-believe grounds of our work.”

— Chloe Gong

157. “If Rosalind hadn’t left, she would have become another one of the odd items, forgotten amid the mess and clutter in that room.”

— Chloe Gong

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

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159. “Lovers turned to strangers.”

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160. “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

161. “Gangster royalty, dead by his hands. The two empires of Shanghai’s underground – the heirs of families that had kept this city rumbling on capital and foreign trade, on hierarchy and nepotism – both fallen and executed under his bullet. It was too good to pass up.”

— Chloe Gong

162. “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

163. “Given Anton’s childhood, a natural assumption would be that he couldn’t handle bloodshed. But blood is faultless. Blood is only a consequence. Better to draw blood before it can be drawn from you; better to exert power and hold control- to seize power and maintain control.”

— Chloe Gong

164. “It was his father. Perhaps it made Orion a bad operative, but if he were ever to encounter incriminating evidence within the walls of his house, his first instinct would be to hide it away.”

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165. “In that manner, perhaps no one is alike to anyone, but that only means that they are another one of the masses, another face that does not draw attention, another late-night wanderer trailing along the streets to the dun, dun! of the tram chugging on its tracks. They are your neighbor leaning off the balcony; they are a hawker selling peaches; they are that banker hailing the last rickshaw in the area to pursue the night in a different district. They are, quite simply, Shanghai.”

— Chloe Gong

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

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167. “Juliette would have accepted the burden of playing dead if it meant safety for those she loved most. She and Roma were the same that way. It was their greatest flaw and their greatest strength at once, and she doubted that would ever change.”

— Chloe Gong

168. “I will be free of my name.” Juliette looked up. “I will take yours.”

— Chloe Gong

169. “If the human soul has an afterlife, has a will, then his would be here for rest, and Alisa has no doubt that Juliette’s would follow.”

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170. “It was all irrational anyway, a belief that if he achieved one impossible thing, then perhaps every other impossible element in his life would click together too, regardless of whether they truly correlated.”

— Chloe Gong

171. “Every flicker of the gas, every puddle growing by the sink – the more that Benedikt took notice of the space that Marshall had once constantly lounged around, the emptier it grew.”

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172. “Where is he living?” “With you.” The room fell silent. Rosalind thought she had misheard. “I beg your pardon?” “Sorry, did I skip that part? You’re getting married. For this mission, the two of you will be abandoning your present code names and becoming one combined operative. Welcome to the covert branch, High Tide.”

— Chloe Gong

173. “It’s not a crime to be born into privilege, what matters is using it instead of closing your eyes to it.”

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174. “It is love that will survive after everything else has perished.”

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175. “Killer. Violent. Ruthless. All those and more – that was who she was now.”

— Chloe Gong

176. “Juliette tried not to grit her teeth so hard. She was going to put a crack in her jaw at this rate.”

— Chloe Gong

177. “Do that again,” he said. She looked at the sink. “Wash the razor?” “No, beloved. Your laugh.”

— Chloe Gong

178. “I was waiting for you,” he said quickly. “I didn’t want to startle you, so I was waiting for you to come back. Don’t go.”

— Chloe Gong

179. “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?”

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180. “Benedikt was staring.”

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

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182. “This is tenderness. And she is more afraid of it than anything else.”

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183. “After four years away, Juliette’s memories of the people she had left behind no longer aligned with who they had become. Nothing of her memory had withstood the test of time. This city had reshaped itself and everyone in it had continued moving forward without her, especially Rosalind.”

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184. “She had once known him better than she knew herself.”

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185. “She would chase politicians until she understood their every move, she would chase top officials until she knew every last piece of their classified plan, but she would not chase this. She would rather hold this hope so close to her chest that it feels like a fire on its own, flickering against the darkness, flickering even where other embers burn out.”

— Chloe Gong

186. “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

187. “An ever-expanding supernova. A hurricane that changed worlds and remade them.”

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188. “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

189. “She could kill him right here if she wanted. The apartment hosts only the two of them. The rest of San-Er sleeps within its own walls. He would have nowhere to jump. But she won’t. She trusts her life in his hands, and for that, she wants to deserve his trust too, offer him safety in her embrace.”

— Chloe Gong

190. “Under the low-hanging light of the moon, Roma was a black-and-white study of sorrow.”

— Chloe Gong

191. “Lie first; figure out the rest later.”

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192. “Open it.” “There is a fish in my face, dorogaya.” “Ignore the fish and open it.”

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193. “The whole point of lying to him was to keep him away. The whole point was that they couldn’t do this again, because the moment he saw through her, then their city of blood would catch up to them, and perhaps they could be together at last if it was together in death.”

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194. “You think so intently of protecting me that you did not consider whether I wanted to be protected. I would have rather died knowing you are as you are than lived a long life thinking you cruel.”

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195. “You wanted daffodils at your wedding, and suddenly I wanted to be the one beside you at the altar watching you hold them. I wanted it to be real. I wanted it all to be real.”

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196. “They let the silence run, because Juliette could hardly think when Roma was so close, and Roma didn’t seem too eager to loosen the anger in his eyes.”

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197. “He had buried Juliette like a corpse beneath the floorboards, content to live with the ghosts that whispered to him in his sleep.”

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198. “Sometimes it was hard for Kathleen to remember that she was still her own person, not just shards of a mirror, reflecting back a thousand different personalities most fitting for the situation.”

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199. “The Scarlet Gang was, first and foremost, a network of gangsters, and there was seldom a time when gangsters weren’t heavily involved with the black market. If the Scarlets dominated Shanghai, it was hardly surprising that they dominated the black market, too – decided the comings and goings, decided the men who were allowed to thrive and the men who needed to drop dead.”

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200. “Her father was and had always been the leader of a ruthless gang, the head of a criminal empire. He had never hesitated to give punishment where punishment was deserved, and Juliette had never blinked until now – now, when punishment was still fair, but fair brought the blood of one of her best friends.”

— Chloe Gong