Quotes by Stieg Larsson

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.

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.

Kalle Fucking Blomkvist

From a purely physical standpoint she didnt have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Harley-Davidson, she said. Sweet.

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

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 dont have trust, the friendship will crumble.

She was afraid that it was a moral issue, and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

Dear Government... Im going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I dont know how to handle it. I dont know the purpose of the company besides making more money. Whats all the money going to be used for?

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasnt sure which.

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.

She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isnt much time left.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, its an absolute duty.

It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.