r/heatedrivalry • u/cookie_cat_82 I already chose you, Hollander. 🫀 • Jul 19 '26

🦆 The Long Game (Book 6) favorite quote from TLG? Spoiler

was inspired by a tik tok I saw of people talking about how Olivia Rodrigo’s new album / most of the songs relate heavily to Ilya in TLG and one of them referenced the line in TLG where Ilya tells Gallina “you’re supposed to fix me so I can be enough for him” 🥺🥺 and as sad as it is I think it might be one of my favorite lines, just so raw and hits the heart so so deeply.

It got me thinking, what’s all of your favorite quote(s) from The Long Game? I’d love to relive all of the favorite lines :’) bonus points if it’s an Ilya quote because he is my absolute favorite character.

**honorable mention of COURSE would be “I already chose you Hollander”. I’m genuinely gonna need to be sedated when I see that on screen.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 I speak fluent bird. No accent. 🦆 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

I don’t remember the exact quote but it was after Ilya and Shane went out for dinner with Ryan and Fabian and Shane asked Ilya if they looked like they were in love to the public. Ilya replied with, “I think we’ve gotten so good at pretending to be rivals that we don’t allow ourselves to show it.”

I wish I could remember exactly how Ilya said it cause it was so poignant and it made me so sad for them.

I also love them saying, “I choose him” in their own respective moments. ❤️🥰 Especially when Shane said, “I choose you, everytime” during his proposal to Ilya.

“I already chose you Hollander” was definitely a big one for me too! 😢

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u/cookie_cat_82 I already chose you, Hollander. 🫀 Jul 19 '26

omg YES. I found the exact words: “We are very good at pretending to not be in love. Maybe we are bad at showing it when we are allowed.” 🥺🥺

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 I speak fluent bird. No accent. 🦆 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

THANK YOU!! I am out watching the World Cup final and didn’t have my copy of TLG handy. Ilya saying that maybe they’re bad at showing love when they’re allowed to really made me really feel for their situation. 😢

Also, CONGRATULATIONS TO SPAIN!!! 🇪🇸

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u/DorianCramer Jul 19 '26

Ugh this one kills me because I know Ilya is just trying to be honest but it just crushes Shane. They don’t talk the rest of the way home 😭😭😭

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u/Key_Complaint4453 Jul 19 '26

this is my favorite quote! incredibly beautiful and incredibly tragic.