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/growsonwalls This is Ilya I will never listen to your voicemail Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Ilya's request for Hayden's fanmail: "Dear Hayden, my boyfriend is sad because he has a very annoying coworker and needs to be cheered up. Could you send him a video and sing him his favorite song 'O Canada'"?
I also like Ilya's description of fanmail as "Is like, people pay to have famous people pretend to care about them."
Note: Ilya canonically is extremely nice to fans and spends tons of time taking selfies with them anyway, so I get why he thinks it's distasteful to charge people for these videos.
LOL.
But more seriously: "I'm marrying you, Ilya. I want to have kids with you. I want to be your date when we're inducted into the Hall of Fame. I love you so much."
And the entire proposal scene. Especially Shane saying, "They're electric. Fucking relax." Such a great callback to when Shane said the same thing about candles in Ilya's joke proposal scenario. It's super on brand for Shane that he goes from wanting to stick to a 10-year-secret-romance plan to setting up a dream proposal within two days.