Common Goal Quotes

“If Kyle had one weakness—and he didn’t; he had many—it was confident, attractive older men. Also, confident, attractive younger men. Also, men.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Rozanov’s face lit up. “Bisexual! This is great. Did you fuck that blond teenager yet?” “He’s not a—” Eric bit his tongue. “He’s twenty-five.” “Twenty-five was a long time ago for you. Do you remember twenty-five?”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“He wanted to fall in love with him because he knew it wouldn’t take much. Just permission.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Kyle understood what Eric was trying to say, but he wanted to make something clear. “You know you’re not any less bisexual if you never hook up with a man, right? Your sexuality is still completely valid and real, whether you have sex with one gender, multiple genders, or no one at all.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“I’m not. At all. It was a shocking amount of Cherry Coke for a pro athlete to consume. It was memorable.” “You know,” Ilya said with a weird little smile. “You were not the only one to think so that day.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“You’re not. You’re going to die during a threesome with Oscar Isaac and Michael B. Jordan.” “That’s really nice of you to say.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“he’d never been forced to hide who he really was. Not in the same way. He’d just chosen not to reveal all of himself, because he’d never needed to.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“To love, then. And”—he glanced at Eric—“to being brave.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Scott beamed at him. Scott had been doing a lot of smiling in the past couple of years since he’d fallen in love with Kip Grady.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“You want to dance to Pitbull?” “No.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“We are friends,” Kyle assured him. “We can be the kind of friends who don’t have sex. I’ve heard some friendships work that way. Seems weird”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“think I might be able to be my whole self with you.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“So what? So you shouldn’t try in case one day you change your mind? You think falling in love isn’t worth the risk?”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Where he was allowed to fall in love with him.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“There was nothing impressive about him. He was a rich kid who’d taught himself languages because he’d been lonely and bored: first as a gay teenager in a very small town, then as a nervous country mouse living alone in Manhattan.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“It was suddenly a lot easier to tease Kip about Scott. He no longer felt a stab of jealousy or longing when reminded that Kip was spoken for, and Kyle didn’t want to think too hard about why that was.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“He just got so frustrated at how the Kingfisher was run sometimes.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“You know,” Ilya said with a weird little smile. “You were not the only one to think so that day.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Kyle rolled his eyes, which was the immature thing he did when he didn’t want to deal with feelings.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“wondered what it might be like for sex to be something that he wasn’t just trying to get over with. For sexual release to not merely be maintenance he provided to his body, like getting a massage, or stretching.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“the”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“This Murray Hill townhouse suited him better in every way.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“It was nice to feel supported”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Bisexual! This is great. Did you fuck that blond teenager yet?” “He’s not a—” Eric bit his tongue. “He’s twenty-five.” “Twenty-five was a long time ago for you. Do you remember twenty-five?”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Because I think you might be a good kisser. I want to test that theory.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Hockey players kiss each other all the time. I’ve seen it,” Kyle teased. “Not on the mouths usually.” “Shame.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Oh my god. Can you please stop acting like you’re my old uncle Eric who I am forced to spend time with? You’re my friend”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“Eric wondered what that felt like, to love a person so deeply that you become braver for it. Become better.”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“I wasn’t exactly a party animal myself before I met Kip. I mean, I’m still not, but at least I go out without feeling terrified that I’ll let the mask slip, y’know?”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal

“If Ilya Rozanov didn’t get his ass out of Eric’s face right fucking now”
― Rachel Reid, Common Goal