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“Trauma doesn't have to lead to destruction. Trauma can be the guiding point to something better, something stronger”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“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.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Lady Fortune, you play foul.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Do you not listen to me when I speak?” he answered shakily, his lip quirking up. “I love you. I have always loved you.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Nation over everything. But not you, sweetheart. Never your life in exchange”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“You can't ask me not to love you by keeping me at arm's length. I'll love you anyway.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“She only wanted to be a girl who was deserving of the world.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Do you think of me as some all-controlling harpy wife?”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“This is not a game to me,” Orion cut in. “I would rather die by your hand than have you believe me a traitor. I would rather take a fast bullet than have us pitted on different sides of an agonizing battle.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Don’t”—he swung again—“touch”—another hard thwack—“my”—the crate broke into two pieces—“wife.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“A city reborn is a city traumatized.
It remembers its past, every second that it took to get to this point. It sees the former version of itself and knows that it has changed, its boots no longer fitting, its hats no longer comfortable. The streets trace how they used to sprawl. No matter how it is paved over and reorganized, memories and echoes do not fade away that easily.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Maybe we don’t have to be like this forever, wielded around as national tools. Maybe we can just be people.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Adequately expensive. Not expensive enough to verge onto the point of outrage.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“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, Foul Lady Fortune

“Broken things called to broken things, tried to slot their shards together in the hopes that they would fit.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“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, Foul Lady Fortune

“It was his father. Perhaps it made Orion a bad operative, but if he were ever to encounter incriminating evidence within the walls of his house, his first instinct would be to hide it away.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“If Rosalind hadn’t left, she would have become another one of the odd items, forgotten amid the mess and clutter in that room.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“Yes, is the obvious answer. I do hate you. I hate everything about you. I hate you so much that whenever I’m around you, I can barely think straight. I can barely even breathe.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I didn’t know you had such a praise kink.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“And everything about this moment is so lovely and so fragile in its loveliness that I’m almost afraid to hold it. Afraid that the spell will break.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“You're still a kid, you know.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“What is family for if not to love us and then break our hearts?”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“But the thought of being associated with that other version of herself was horrifying now. That Rosaland was an enemy, someone she had to push farther and farther into the recesses of her mind, someone she could never think about too much lest she make a return. The Rosalind who was here today could never reacquaint herself with her former remnant; she was too busy trying to fix that girl's damn mistakes”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“And so her twin sister had turned twenty. Rosalind Lang was still nineteen. Rosalind Lang would always be nineteen.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“But the thought of being associated with that other version of herself was horrifying now. That Rosalind was an enemy, someone she had to push farther and farther into the recesses of her mind, someone she could never think about too much lest she make a return. The Rosalind who was here today could never reacquaint herself with her former remnant; she was too busy trying to fix that girl's damn mistakes”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“You cannot save the world. You can try to save one thing if you must, but it is enough if that one thing is yourself.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“I think about why I’m doing this. I think about why I want—no, need, always need—the money. More money. I think about how ironic it is, that in order to become the person I’d like to be, I might have to do the last thing others would expect of me. I think about guilt and karma and survival and how being good doesn’t ever promise you anything in this world—only power does that.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun