What Can't Be Seen (Dr. Gretchen White, #2)

by Brianna Labuskes

“If you tell the world someone is crazy enough times, the world stops believing them when they say they aren’t,” Gretchen said, lifting one shoulder.

“Sometimes terrible people are just born terrible.”

A significant percentage of sociopaths passed for normal—they were CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, politicians, defense lawyers, the like. Some didn’t even realize why they never quite fit in, existing on the outskirts, maybe getting fired more often than their peers, maybe ruining a few more relationships than would generally be considered normal. But it was a leap for the average person to add all that up and diagnose themselves as a sociopath. After all, they’d probably never murdered anyone, and that’s what the media and pop culture told people sociopaths did. Psychopaths, on the other hand, landed in jail more often than not. Not all killed, but there were plenty of ways to inflict violence even if it never turned fatal. It wasn’t if a psychopath would be consumed by the flames, but when.

“Genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger,”