Steig Larsson Quotes

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat

To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

-Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.

Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.