Aimen

“Wasn't playing with her heart once enough? Hadn't he already torn her into two and left her to the wolves once before?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“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, These Violent Delights

“that when you assume someone cannot speak English right off the bat, they tend to make fun of you.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“And he mourned for her. He didn’t wish to, but he did—he ached with the knowledge that the softness of their youth was gone forever, that the Juliette he remembered was long dead. He ached even more to think that though he was the one who had dealt the killing blow,”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights