Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3.4)

by Mira Grant

I hate the term “mad scientist.” Shit yeah, I’m angry. I have every reason in the world to be angry. But what right do you have to call me insane? —Dr. Shannon Abbey

she was going to come to learn that the world was under no obligation to make sense either now or ever.

I don’t like feeling this way.” “What way?” “Any way.” She shook her head fiercely. “I don’t like feeling.

I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t ask to be the one who had to survive and keep on going. Can you make it go away?”