199 Quotes by Stieg Larsson

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    There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and, if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

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    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.

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    I can still remember the unexpectedness of The Girl with the Dragon.

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    Everyone has secrets. It’s just a matter of finding out what they are.

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    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.

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    Si amor significa querer mucho a alguien, entonces supongo que estoy enamorado de varias personas.

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    The NSA had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously. Each individual call was separated and processed digitally by computers programmed to react to certain words, such as terrorist or Kalashnikov. If such a word occurred, the computer automatically sent an alarm, which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not.

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    Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat – where do I get these metaphors from?

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