Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “You wanted daffodils at your wedding, and suddenly I wanted to be the one beside you at the altar.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

204. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

205. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

207. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

212. “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

213. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

214. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

215. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

217. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

220. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

223. “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

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

227. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

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

— Chloe Gong

229. “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.”

— Chloe Gong

230. “There are no good kings, but there are fair ones.”

— Chloe Gong

231. “I would rather the two of you not burn the world down each time you choose each other.”

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

— Chloe Gong

233. “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

234. “Tyler and his Scarlet men would go on a rampage in the name of defending Juliette, even if they too wanted her dead. It was all one and the same. It was this city, divided by names and colors and turfs, but somehow bleeding the exact same shade of violence.”

— Chloe Gong

235. “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.”

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236. “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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237. “Of course I was committed to her beyond what was acceptable for the mission. I was so fascinated because I could see the parts of you in her. I’ve loved you this whole time, just split in two.”

— Chloe Gong