Steig Larsson
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 batCollection: Baseball
The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.Collection: Fall
Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.Collection: Years
History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.Collection: War
What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.Collection: Heart
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.Collection: Jobs
-Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.Collection: Police
Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?Collection: Crazy
Friendship is probably the most common form of love.Collection: Inspirational
What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.Collection: Girl
She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.Collection: Track
There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.Collection: Believe
She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.Collection: Lovers
The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, and every sort of conspiracy theorist.Collection: Media
You're an entropic chaos factorCollection: Chaos
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.Collection: Kids
You were difficult enough to catch,” Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.Collection: Long
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!Collection: Life Lesson
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Gone
He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.Collection: Pigs
I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.Collection: Positive
I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.Collection: Believe
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Enemy
Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.Collection: Criminals
Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Imagination
He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.Collection: Desire
Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people. It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.Collection: People
Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.Collection: Giving Up
I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Tattoo
Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.Collection: Smart
Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.Collection: Doctors
A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.Collection: Asking Questions
His attitude had always been that if a woman clearly indicated that she did not want anything more to do with him, he would go on his way. Not respecting such a message would in his eyes, show a lack of respect for her.Collection: Attitude
Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.Collection: Punishment
Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.Collection: Forgiving
The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.Collection: Reality
You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.Collection: Teenager
There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.Collection: Freak
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.Collection: Cry
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.Collection: Problem
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?Collection: Metaphor
[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.Collection: Greatest Fear
Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.Collection: Sweet
Consider this a fair warning.Collection: Warning
I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.Collection: Goodbye