199 Quotes by Stieg Larsson

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Blomkvist had kept the promise he’d made in December to stop visiting Lundagatan in the vain hope that Salander might appear.

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most ‘innocent’ texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

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.

And yet it was her life that was going to be turned inside out. She would be forced to explain herself and to beg for forgiveness because she had defended herself.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn’t have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Oppurtunity Makes the Thief.

When he ran into her at Susanne’s, she was friendly but cool and distant. When they met in her bedroom, she was wildly passionate.