These Violent Delights Quotes

“You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“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.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Together or not at all, doragaya”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Your life," he seethed. "Is not a game of luck".
"Since when," Juliette spat, "did you care about my life?'
"I don't." He was trembling with fury. "I hate you".
And when Juliette didn't recoil, Roma kissed her.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I said I wanted you dead," Roma confirmed. "I never said I didn't love you”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I l still love you so much that I hate you for it”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“moya doragaya, I love you, I love you”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“My darling, darling Juliette”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“You are a liar, Juliette Cai," he said. "You lied to me until I wanted you dead”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“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.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Keep fighting for love.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Hello, stranger”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Like twin statues reaching for each other, they both fell asleep at last.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“The feud keeps taking and hurting and killing and still I couldn't stop loving you even when I thought I hated you.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I love you.” Julian spoke without looking at him. He was watching the ceiling fan slice uselessly through the thick air. “I really do. I wish you could tell.”
― Micah Nemerever

“It is never simple as one truth. Nothing ever is.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“They say Shanghai stands tall like an emperor’s ugly daughter, its streets sprawling in a manner that only the limbs of a snarling princess could manage. It was not born this way. It used to be beautiful. They used to croon over it, examining the lines of its body and humming beneath their breath, nodding and deciding that it was well suited for children. Then this city mutilated itself with a wide, wide grin. It dragged a knife down its cheek and took the blade to its chest and now it worries not for finding suitors, but merely for running wild, drunk on the invulnerability of inherited power, well suited only for profit and feasting, dancing and whoring.
Now it may be ugly, but it is glorious.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“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

“Perhaps that is why the Russians have come here, these flocks of exiles who fled the Bolshevik Revolution and even before that, when their home could no longer be a home. If you decided to run, you might as well keep running until you came to the edge of the world.
That is what this city is. The party at the end of the world.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights