Blomkvist's Quotes

#1. The Salander investigation is fake. Bjorck's original doesn't match Blomkvist's version. Classify Top Secret.

Stieg Larsson

#2. Love ... is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.

Colette

#3. Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.

Stieg Larsson

#4. Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

Benny Blanco

#5. Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#6. We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

Stieg Larsson

#7. The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Stieg Larsson

#9. To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

Stieg Larsson

#10. Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

Victor Hugo

#11. Somehow she managed to survive and dig herself out and - "
"And somehow get back to the farm and swing an axe into Zalachenko's skull," Blomkvist finished for him. "She can be a moody bitch.

Stieg Larsson

#12. 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.

Stieg Larsson

#13. In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.

Stieg Larsson