When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.

I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

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.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.