Mastermind (Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood #1)

by Andrew Mayne

“Hard to imagine how someone could do that to another person,” I reply. “No, it’s not. You just make a person not a person. You start with a label. Maybe it’s a different political party or religion from your own. Then you make them that label and everything you hate about it.

We even tell ourselves convincing little fictions that it’s okay to hate those other people because they’re the ones who are really filled with hate. We make ourselves judges.”

Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world, not because they deliver your flat-screen television the next day, but because of their computer-services division, which runs the computer systems for half the internet.

He may be in love with her, but he doesn’t love her. The distinction is the difference between wanting a thing and wanting what is best for it.

Medicine is conservative. Sometimes for the right reasons. Sometimes for the wrong reasons. We’ll let people die from a pandemic because we don’t want to give them a cure that might also kill them. It’s easier to deal with the repercussions of a death by natural causes than a death from an experimental procedure.