Top 100 Stieg Larsson Quotes
#1. Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.
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#2. Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.
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#3. I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
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#4. You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section.
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#5. But it was not over for Lisbeth Salander. This was only the first day of the rest of her life. At
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#6. The first email was from : I HOPE YOU SUCK COCK IN THE SLAMMER YOU FUCKING COMMIE PIG. He filed it in the "INTELLIGENT CRITICISM" folder.
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#7. He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.
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#8. 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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#9. In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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 bat
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#12. 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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#13. 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.
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#14. I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.
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#15. Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.
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#16. The constitution had nothing to do with it. It was, after all, a matter of national security.
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#17. She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
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#18. An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.
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#19. Dear Government ... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
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#20. The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal.
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#21. Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein
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#22. Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.
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#23. Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility.
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#24. Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
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#25. Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
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#26. An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.
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#28. What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.
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#31. There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
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#32. She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
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#33. 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.
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#35. If love is liking someone too much, then I think I'm in love with an awful lot of people
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#36. 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.
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#37. When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.
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#38. Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?
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#39. She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.
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#40. Berger's eyes narrowed. She turned ice-cold. She had had enough of the word whore.
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#41. Greeks who coined the term "Amazon." The word literally means "without breast." It is said that in order to facilitate the drawing of a bow, the female's right breast was removed, either in early childhood or with a red-hot iron after she became an adult.
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#42. [Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.
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#43. Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.
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#44. 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.
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#46. metal sign and use the sharp edge to cleave Berger's head in two. She did nothing as thoughts swirled through her mind. Analysis of consequences. Finally she calmed down.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?
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#50. That I would have to be totally insane to stop seeing you just because you're going to leave one day
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#51. I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.
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#52. I don't give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign here that you received it and you can get drunk in peace.
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#53. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.
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#54. And I guess that in some way I'm falling for you because you are who you are. It's easy to sleep with you because there's no bullshit and you make me feel safe. But this all started because I gave in to a crazy impulse. It doesn't happen very often, and I hadn't planned it.
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#55. You could get pretty angry with less provocation. She
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#56. What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.
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#57. Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say ... that I have, of course.
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#58. 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.
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#59. It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding
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#60. 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.
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#61. She cursed her gender. Nobody would have dared attack her if she had been a man.
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#62. -Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.
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#63. He knows that I have a photographic memory ... and that I'm a hacker.
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#64. Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.
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#65. To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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#66. Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.
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#68. But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.
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#69. He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived. By now he was not thinking of anything in particular. Then he raised the revolver one last time, held it to his temple, and squeezed the trigger.
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#70. I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
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#72. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace.
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#73. In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.
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#74. I was a scared little girl barely into my teens then. Now I'm a grown woman. I can kill you whenever I want. Again
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#75. 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.
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#76. That's the crux of almost every fight, the moment when the strength drains out of you and the adrenaline pumps so hard that it becomes a burden and surrender appears like a ghost at ringside.
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#77. Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.
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#78. I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
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#79. Oh, come off it. That surly cunt is squirming like a snake."
"Could there be some sort of Freudian symbolism in your choice of similes?"
"What?"
"Forget it ...
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#81. Apart from the fact that you're not really a dyke. You're probably bisexual. But most of all you're sexual - you like sex and you don't care about what gender. You're an entropic chaos factor.
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#82. This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.
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#83. She really just wanted his company. She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was. That she was someone special in his world and in his life. She wanted him to give her some gesture of love, not just of friendship and companionship.
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#84. He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Harald seemed to be an invisible but ever-present spirit who affected life in the village by his absence.
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#88. He's a moron," Blomkvist said. Vanger laughed, but he said: "That may be. But he's not the one who was sentenced by the court.
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#89. Cuando llega la hora, llega la hora. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do and all that crap.
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#90. When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.
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#91. Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
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#92. In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
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#93. That held for a few minutes, until the head of Budget pointed out that SA was not much better than SS.
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#94. It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.
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#95. I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.
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#96. At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.
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#97. If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.
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#98. One more man who hates women, she muttered at last.
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#99. Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.
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#100. Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organization, are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. On this law democracy stands or falls.
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