Top 200 Chloe Gong Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

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202. “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.”

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

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

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205. “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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206. “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.”

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207. “There was so much luck to be had in the genetic lottery; one different code and it was a whole lifetime of forced adaptation.”

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208. “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.”

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

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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.”

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

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214. “Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I.”

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

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

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

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “You can call a rose something else, but it remains yet a rose.”

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

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223. “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.”

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224. “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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225. “Jealousy is a good look on you.”

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

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227. “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.”

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

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

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

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231. “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.”

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232. “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.”

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233. “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.”

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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.”

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237. “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.”

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