Hestia Strikes a Match Quotes

“Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Because when your performances get his attention, well, then you've got his attention, and do you actually want all that attention? It's exhausting.”
― Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

“The most intimate relationship of my life would be my relationship with me--which was wildly unappealing. This is why people believe in gods, so we can have intimate relationships with them instead of ourselves.”
― Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

“He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calendar.”
― Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

“Hey," I said. "I invented a joke after he left. Do you want to hear it?"
He said he did.
"How do you know when a white man is woke?"
"How?" he asked,
"Oh don't worry," I said. "He'll tell you.”
― Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match