92 Quotes by David Lagercrantz

If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.

This isn’t a negotiation, it’s not even a conversation. I’m just setting out the terms, that’s all.

Ha, no, that it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less. It’s the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.

The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.

Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

Given his age, Jan Bublanski was afraid of many things. But perhaps he feared the absence of doubt most of all. He was a man of faith who was uncomfortable in the face of convictions too strongly held or over-simplified explanations. He was forever producing counter-arguments and contrary hypotheses. Nothing was so certain that it could not be challenged one more time.

If God is indeed omnipotent, is he then capable of creating something more intelligent than himself?

Are you insane?” “Probably, yes,” she said. “Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.

Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.