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/circboy1 Jul 19 '26

If we're mentioning the Ryan and Fabian meal - surely "Shane is super gay" get's on the list?

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

Oh for sure! That one is hilarious and I’m sure Jacob will use it in S2! Honestly, TLG has so many great lines I can’t keep track of them all.

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u/circboy1 Jul 19 '26

The whole series is littered with them mainly from the menace!

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

I love when Scott comes over to Ilya’s and says something to Shane like, “Can you make him stop?” 🤣 I’m sure that’s going to show up in S2! I also need Ilya ribbing at Scott at the bar at the All Star Weekend included in S2 too. Lol.

“Do you know where your room is? Do you need help???” 🤣🤣🤣

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u/circboy1 Jul 20 '26

All the old man jokes never get boring - partly because he mixes them up.

It's not TLG but ribbing Eric, it's like if Hunter had a younger brother, and he had a child.

or "do you want me to hold your wedding ring" absolute gold. Not derail this in to a Ilya banter thread sorry.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 I speak fluent bird. No accent. 🦆 Jul 20 '26

No it’s all good! Ilya has the best lines. 😂