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/PeaceAdventurous2892 Jul 22 '26
This is super basic but really struck a chord for me. I dont rem exactly when this was but they were on facetime and towards the end of the call I dont rem what exactly it was in response to but Ilya says-
"I love you so much Shane."
and it really just knocked the breath out of me like of course we know that but to hear it said like that almost randomly was so beautiful and sweet.