Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Zoey Ashe #2)

by David Wong

Someone told her the technique was called “gaslighting.” Zoey assumed they called it that because it really confuses people, just like if you stopped in the middle of a conversation to suddenly light a fart.

“And what do you think will be the easiest way for them to obtain said evidence of your guilt?” asked Wu. “Oh. To grab me and beat a confession out of me.” About four different people in the room simultaneously said, “It’s what I would do.”

“No, I mean … in general. I wake up exhausted. Every day.” “You are twenty-three. If you can stick this out and push through, you will find it gets a lot worse.”

“Being against power is easy, Zoey, because you never, ever need to offer solutions or take risks. Exercising power in the right way is what’s hard. This system favors psychopaths in the same way that basketball favors the tall.

Fear was interest paid on money you didn’t even owe.