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

by David Wong

People don’t want solutions. They want novelty.

you can’t get a job without a nice suit. You know why that is? It’s because a job interview isn’t really to see if you can do the job. It’s to see if you can properly assume the role of a member of a higher class. And guess who gets to decide what that looks like.”

“There are things people actually believe,” said Andre, “and things they only pretend to believe because it’s convenient. But over time it don’t matter which is which, it all just blurs together. People are like that.” “Okay, so why would they choose to believe this particular awful thing?” “Because they hate you, Zoey. And because they hate you, they need to come up with a reason to hate you. See, because otherwise, they’re just bad people.”

the thing they hate isn’t even you, it’s a fictional version of you they’ve crafted to be as hateable as possible. The more they hate you, the more they love each other.”

“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.