Steig Larsson Quotes

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.

Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.

Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.

You're an entropic chaos factor

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.