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These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1) QUOTES

These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1) QUOTES

1 " This is why my betrayal was so terrible. Because you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

2 " I was raised in hatred, Roma. I could never be your lover, only your killer. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

3 " 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. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

4 " No, he is mine to deal with. He is mine to destroy. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

5 " 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 (These Violent Delights #1)

6 " I doubt you have a penny on you,” Juliette finally replied. Reluctantly, she took a step forward and raised her hand; Roma did the same. They didn’t need to speak to make the complementing gesture. They had always known how to predict what the other was about to do.
“Indeed, but I have plenty of larger bills. Would you offer more thoughts for those "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

7 " The stars incline us, they do not bind us. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

8 " You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

9 " It is never simple as one truth. Nothing ever is. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

10 " 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 (These Violent Delights #1)

11 " 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 (These Violent Delights #1)

12 " 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 (These Violent Delights #1)

13 " Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

14 " She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own? "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

15 " You destroy me and then you kiss me. You give me a reason to hat you and then you give me a reason to love you. Is this a lie or the truth? Is the a ploy or your heart reaching for me? "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

16 " Don’t you dare,” Roma said. “Don’t you dare fall apart now, dorogaya. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

17 " These days Juliette,” he said, low and warily, “the most dangerous people are the powerful white men who feel as if they have been slighted. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

18 " Even the land of dreams needs to wake up sometimes. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

19 " Astra inclinant,” he would whisper into the wind, so heartachingly sincere even when quoting in Latin, “sed non obligant. "

― Chloe Gong , These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1)

20 " 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 (These Violent Delights #1)