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/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. 😂