The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

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