Steig Larsson
But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.Collection: Fighting
Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they areCollection: Secret
There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.Collection: Action
Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.Collection: Government
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Survival
There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.Collection: Hammers
Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.Collection: Crazy
No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.Collection: Believe
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.Collection: Absurdity
Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.Collection: Yesterday
Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full reinCollection: Self
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.Collection: Done
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.Collection: Hands
When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.Collection: Grieving
I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?Collection: Tattoo
Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.Collection: Dream
What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.Collection: Tools
Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.Collection: Eye
Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.Collection: Couple
Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.Collection: Men
It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent, and it didn’t matter if it was just a warm-up of friendly sparring.Collection: Style
It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.Collection: Stupid
Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.Collection: Goes On
Zalachenko...you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.Collection: Hate
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.Collection: Courage
He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.Collection: Ifs
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.Collection: Attitude
Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him . . .that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.Collection: Self Confidence
No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.Collection: Clouds
We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.Collection: Needs
Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Simple
If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.Collection: Love Is
And I guess that in some way I'm falling for you because you are who you are. It's easy to sleep with you because there's no bullshit and you make me feel safe. But this all started because I gave in to a crazy impulse. It doesn't happen very often, and I hadn't planned it.Collection: Crazy
I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's overCollection: Falling In Love
She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.Collection: Realization
Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.Collection: Genius
Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?Collection: Nazi
I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.Collection: Father
He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.Collection: Eggshells
She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.Collection: Might
...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.Collection: Ideas
Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.Collection: Lying
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.Collection: Suicide
I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.Collection: Want
It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoidingCollection: Men
Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.Collection: Encouragement
Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.Collection: Blood