Top 100 Larsson's Quotes
#1. In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson's fans have already asked about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism
Stieg Larsson
#2. The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg
#3. Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
Camilla Lackberg
#4. I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can't have with the American version.
Michael Nyqvist
#5. Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.
David Lagercrantz
#6. Back in the spring of 2010, Stieg Larsson's agent was having a good day.
Jodie Archer
#7. I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over
Stieg Larsson
#8. There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.
Stieg Larsson
#9. This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for?
Stieg Larsson
#10. Be at the aim of a gun, but you get out of Larsson TIGER's green eyes sight ...
Pet Torres
#11. I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
Stieg Larsson
#12. Do they really help? It's just a few pictures in an album in your head, after all. In between those scenes you do remember there are hundreds, thousands, of scenes you've forgotten. So are you remembering the truth?
Asa Larsson
#13. I have an unforgettable destiny for this girl's virginity."
~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#14. Berger's eyes narrowed. She turned ice-cold. She had had enough of the word whore.
Stieg Larsson
#15. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#16. Listen, kid, you shouldn't work so bloody hard. Sometimes it's a goos idea just to let go and scream a bit."
Let go she thought. What happens if you find out you keep on falling?
Asa Larsson
#17. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#18. When it comes right down to it, this story is not primarily about spies and secret government agencies; it's about violence against women, and the men who enable it.
Stieg Larsson
#19. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#20. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.
Stieg Larsson
#21. I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.
Noomi Rapace
#22. Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
Stieg Larsson
#23. Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
Stieg Larsson
#24. I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art."
~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#25. She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall.
Stieg Larsson
#26. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#27. Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.
Stieg Larsson
#28. Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
Stieg Larsson
#29. Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility.
Stieg Larsson
#30. I'm not arguing. I just think that it's pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame.
Stieg Larsson
#31. To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
Stieg Larsson
#32. Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.
Stieg Larsson
#33. Cuando llega la hora, llega la hora. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do and all that crap.
Stieg Larsson
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.
Asa Larsson
#37. Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.
Stieg Larsson
#38. Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.
Stieg Larsson
#39. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#40. I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
Stieg Larsson
#41. The Salander investigation is fake. Bjorck's original doesn't match Blomkvist's version. Classify Top Secret.
Stieg Larsson
#42. ... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world.
No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.
Asa Larsson
#43. That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten.
Asa Larsson
#44. I have now played with both him (Cristiano Ronaldo) and Ronaldinho. And Ronaldo is top in Europe at the moment.
Both of them in the same team would be like a bomb. It would be an incredible spectacle for the people.
What's more, I am totally convinced the two are able to play in the same side.
Henrik Larsson
#45. The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.
Asa Larsson
#46. agent inside S.I.S. who had picked up Zalachenko's trail. Right now we're examining a large number of old personnel files." "But if the K.G.B. had
Stieg Larsson
#47. I don't like institutions that are beyond normal parliamentary scrutiny. It's an invitation to abuse of power, no matter how noble the intentions.
Stieg Larsson
#48. Hey, toy boy. It's only 3:00, and I want to be properly entertained before dinner.
Stieg Larsson
#49. We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.
Stieg Larsson
#50. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#51. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#52. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#53. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#54. He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.
Stieg Larsson
#55. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#57. 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
Stieg Larsson
#58. That is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die.
Stieg Larsson
#60. You were difficult enough to catch, Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.
Stieg Larsson
#61. I;m not going to compete with you. I'm better than you are at what I do. And you're better than I am at what you do.
Stieg Larsson
#62. IF YOU TRY TO RUN AWAY FROM ME AGAIN, I'LL FIND YOU EVEN IF YOU ARE IN HELL!" ~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#63. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#64. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#65. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#66. Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan of pleasure. A massage from Mimi was a fantastic experience, and she felt like a kitten who just wanted to purr and wave its paws around.
Stieg Larsson
#67. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#68. But it was not over for Lisbeth Salander. This was only the first day of the rest of her life. At
Stieg Larsson
#69. You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section.
Stieg Larsson
#70. You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.
David Lagercrantz
#71. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#72. Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
Stieg Larsson
#73. The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.
Asa Larsson
#74. I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.
David Lagercrantz
#75. Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.
Stieg Larsson
#76. There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.
Stieg Larsson
#77. Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.
Stieg Larsson
#78. Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers
Stieg Larsson
#79. Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein
Stieg Larsson
#80. It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent, and it didn't matter if it was just a warm-up of friendly sparring.
Stieg Larsson
#81. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#82. But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.
Stieg Larsson
#83. One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it.
Stieg Larsson
#84. She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
Stieg Larsson
#85. He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.
Stieg Larsson
#86. He was not in love with her - they were about as unlike as two people could possibly be - but he was very fond of her and really missed her, as exasperating as she sometimes was.
Stieg Larsson
#87. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#88. Dear Government ... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
Stieg Larsson
#89. It was this simple. Some had it. Others would always falter when it came to the crunch.
Stieg Larsson
#90. Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.
Stieg Larsson
#91. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#92. She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
Stieg Larsson
#93. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#94. The constitution had nothing to do with it. It was, after all, a matter of national security.
Stieg Larsson
#96. Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.
Stieg Larsson
#97. I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.
Stieg Larsson
#98. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R.F.S.).
Stieg Larsson
#99. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#100. If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.
Chris Bohjalian
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