Top 100 Quotes About Larsson
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Back in the spring of 2010, Stieg Larsson's agent was having a good day.
Jodie Archer
#4. IF YOU TRY TO RUN AWAY FROM ME AGAIN, I'LL FIND YOU EVEN IF YOU ARE IN HELL!" ~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg
#8. I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art."
~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Do it, SENATOR! And it will be the end of your career! Everyone will love to know of a scandal involving a senator who loves abusing luxury prostitutes." ~Larsson
Pet Torres
#12. I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.
Jo Nesbo
#13. Be at the aim of a gun, but you get out of Larsson TIGER's green eyes sight ...
Pet Torres
#14. I have an unforgettable destiny for this girl's virginity."
~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#15. I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?
David Lagercrantz
#16. You have damaged me!" He finally murmurs with his hoarse voice. "I gave up earning $ 40,000.00 tonight!" ~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#17. 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
#19. Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.
David Lagercrantz
#20. I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.
David Lagercrantz
#21. Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.
Stieg Larsson
#22. There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.
Stieg Larsson
#23. Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.
Stieg Larsson
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section.
Stieg Larsson
#28. But it was not over for Lisbeth Salander. This was only the first day of the rest of her life. At
Stieg Larsson
#29. 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
#30. He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.
Stieg Larsson
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. That is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die.
Stieg Larsson
#38. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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.
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#42. 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
#43. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R.F.S.).
Stieg Larsson
#44. I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.
Stieg Larsson
#45. Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.
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#47. The constitution had nothing to do with it. It was, after all, a matter of national security.
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#48. 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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#49. She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
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#50. 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
#51. 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
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#52. It was this simple. Some had it. Others would always falter when it came to the crunch.
Stieg Larsson
#53. Dear Government ... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
Stieg Larsson
#54. 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
#55. 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.
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#56. He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.
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#57. She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
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#58. 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
#59. But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.
Stieg Larsson
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein
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#63. 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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#64. 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
#65. Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility.
Stieg Larsson
#66. Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
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#67. Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.
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#68. 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.
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#69. She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall.
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#70. Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
Stieg Larsson
#71. Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
Stieg Larsson
#72. 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
#73. I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Stieg Larsson
#74. An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.
Stieg Larsson
#75. I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.
Asa Larsson
#76. Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
Stieg Larsson
#79. It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.
Asa Larsson
#80. Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
Stieg Larsson
#81. And the feeling that washed over him was like the feeling you get when your new puppy pees in the house for the hundredth time. Exhaustion in the face of how crap everything is.
Asa Larsson
#82. What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
Stieg Larsson
#83. 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
#85. As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.
Magnus Larsson
#86. Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.
Stieg Larsson
#87. I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.
Stieg Larsson
#88. 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
#89. There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
Stieg Larsson
#90. She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
Stieg Larsson
#91. I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.
Stieg Larsson
#92. 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
#93. 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.
Stieg Larsson
#94. 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
#96. If love is liking someone too much, then I think I'm in love with an awful lot of people
Stieg Larsson
#98. Zalachenko ... you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.
Stieg Larsson
#99. As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.
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#100. 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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