Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #0.5)

by Mira Grant

Nature enjoys making hands. Almost as much as it enjoys making beetles.”

Was there any reason in the world to expect a deep-sea predator with that many teeth to be friendly?

“All the stories about mermaids drowning sailors, all the men lost at sea…we never took those into account.”

“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in the sea? We turned monsters into myths, and then we turned them into fairy tales. We dismissed the bad parts. We were too interested in…in…in pretty women in the sea.”