Top 250 Chloe Gong Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I would reroute the train with my bare hands before I left you behind,” he said matter-of-factly. “How very romantic.”

— Chloe Gong

202. “Juliette breathed in deeply, steadying herself. Indeed, it always came back to the blood feud. It always came back to the hatred that ran through the very veins of this city, not their hearts.”

— Chloe Gong

203. “I used to think this city I am to inherit was descending into one ruled by hatred,” the girl says into the cold wind. “I used to think that it was our doing, that the blood feud ruined all that was good.” She looks at her cousin. “But it has been hateful for a long time.”

— Chloe Gong

204. “No need for such force in the household!′ Alisa continued from the living room, her tone upbeat. ‘Take deep breaths! Remember, I love you all!”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

207. “Roma Montagov kicks a chair. “God – ” “ – dammit,” Juliette Cai finishes with a whisper, far across the city.”

— Chloe Gong

208. “Marshall always moved like this – like the world was on the verge of ending and he needed to jam as many movements in as possible.”

— Chloe Gong

209. “Don’t even remind me about my traitorous back,” Marshall said. “Twenty-three years old and I could get a cramp from breathing wrong.” Benedikt blinked. He did the math in his head. “Mars, you’re twenty-four.” Without warning, Marshall dropped to his knees, trembling with the drama. “I’m aging!”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

211. “To suffer in San-Er is not a punishment, only a way of life.”

— Chloe Gong

212. “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

213. “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

214. “Your life is mine as mine is yours- do you understand me? You are not allowed to die.”

— Chloe Gong

215. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

218. “Calla is a woman in the same way that the sky is blue. She understands that it’s the easiest identifier to slap on and she doesn’t mind it, but in actuality, the sky is an incomprehensible void, and Calla, too, feels closer to a nebulous, inexact entity. Before she is anything else, Calla is just Calla.”

— Chloe Gong

219. “I said I wanted you dead,” Roma confirmed. “I never said I didn’t love you.”

— Chloe Gong

220. “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

221. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

223. “She had once believed that inheriting the Scarlet Gang would give her immense power, that she would be able to help the people who needed it and stomp down the people trying to hurt her. But that kind of power was never supposed to be concentrated in one place, and a position like that would only draw up an unending list of enemies trying to cause her harm.”

— Chloe Gong

224. “I would have found you anywhere.” He reached forward. Tugged that piece of her hair, then tucked the curl behind her ear. “Across the world and under it. No matter how well you hide. It doesn’t matter where you go. I’ll always find you. Understand?”

— Chloe Gong

225. “Let me love you, he mouthed. Arrested for public obscenity, Benedikt mouthed back in warning.”

— Chloe Gong

226. “At this distance between them that she had willingly manufactured, because they had been born into two families at war, and she would rather die at Roma’s hand than be the cause of his death.”

— Chloe Gong

227. “It didn’t matter that he had her forever and ever to kiss, past death and into whatever afterlife existed. He still couldn’t ge enough of her.”

— Chloe Gong

228. “It had always been Marshall.”

— Chloe Gong

229. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

231. “Then somewhere along the way, between our last petty argument and the fifth time you decided to sleep on my shoulder, I fell in love with you, and once I’ve tumbled that deep, I’m trying to understand everything you say no matter which language it’s in.”

— Chloe Gong

232. “This is an age of consumption, time speeding by on American flavors and jazz, French literature and a sea of lost cosmopolitan love. If you are.”

— Chloe Gong

233. “Benedikt wanted to break something. He hadn’t touched his art supplies in months, but recently he had been entertaining the urge to destroy it all. Stab his paintbrush right through his canvas and hope that the damage would be enough to make him feel better.”

— Chloe Gong

234. “Juliette folded her arms. “We stay quiet about the injustice off all this simply because it hurts his feelings?”

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235. “Together or not at all, dorogaya,” Roma whispered back. “I’m with you if we run. I’m with you if we fight.”

— Chloe Gong

236. “Both of you just described the very definition of being afraid of something. Got it. We’re avoiding everyone.”

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237. “Her feminine beauty was a concept as fleeting as power. If she acquired a tan, put on some weight, and let a few decades pass, the street artists would not be rendering her face to sell their creams anymore. Chinese and Western standards alike were arbitrary, pitiful things. But Juliette still needed to keep herself in line, force herself to follow them if people were to look up to her.”

— Chloe Gong

238. “These violent delights have violent ends,” Juliette whispered to herself.”

— Chloe Gong

239. “Marshall’s eyes flew open, his spine straightening. “I am not tired. Who told you that? Malicious slander and lies.”

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240. “Rosalind had hurt everyone she cared about, risked their very lives, all for someone who was long gone.”

— Chloe Gong

241. “As the seasons blew by and all this time crawled forward, he should have become a stranger.”

— Chloe Gong

242. “Twelve years old and honed to be a weapon. Fourteen years old and molded into an unquestioning arm of the throne.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

244. “You wanted daffodils at your wedding, and suddenly I wanted to be the one beside you at the altar.”

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245. “Birds,” he muttered. “Miniature little devils.”

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246. “But there was something entirely too genuine about the woman’s offer, something untainted by the usual give-and-take exchange of the city. Juliette didn’t want to ruin it. She didn’t want to pop the illusion.”

— Chloe Gong

247. “I’m not the saving the city because it is good,” she said carefully. Nor am I saving the city because i am good. I want it safe because I wish to be safe. I want it safe because safety is always what is deserved, goodness or wickedness alike.” And if Julitte didn’t do it who would? She sat up here on a throne crusted and silver and dusted with opim powder. If she didn’t use her birthright to offer protection where she could, what was the point?”

— Chloe Gong

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

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249. “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.”

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

— Chloe Gong