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Steig Larsson

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    A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

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    As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

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

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    Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

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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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    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.

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    But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

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

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    Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

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    Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

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    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.

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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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    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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    Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

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    Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

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    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.

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

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    Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

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

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    Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.

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    He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

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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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    Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

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

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    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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    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.

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    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.

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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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    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.

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

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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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    I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

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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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    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 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.

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

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    I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over

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    In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

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

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    I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

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    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.

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    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.

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    It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.