Steig Larsson Quotes
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She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
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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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I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.
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I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.
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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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Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him . . .that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.
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If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.
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He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.
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Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
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I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?
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Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.
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Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
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Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
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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 don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
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She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.
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Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.
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[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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He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.
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I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
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Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
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It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.
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You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.
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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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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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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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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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When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.
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...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.
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The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.
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