Steig Larsson Quotes

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

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.

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.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

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.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do.

Everyone has to have something to believe in.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment.

It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

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.

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.

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.

Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

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

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.

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.

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.

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

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.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody.

I should have said goodbye.

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

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.

Zalachenko...you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.

He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

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.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person.

In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.

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.

What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.

When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.

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.