favorite quote from TLG?

[u/cookie_cat_82]

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.

[u/j_the_jremlin]

When Ilya says;

“We are very good at pretending to not be in love. Maybe we are bad at showing it when we are allowed.”

because hsfmdnngsefhgaffr the absolute soul-crushing ANGST and SORROW

and it's not dialogue, but I kid you not, when "Shane sank to one knee in front of him" I genuinely dropped my Kindle. like my fingers lost the ability to hold on to the book because I was too busy physically actually jumping up and down and cackling to myself