I am what I am,′ Salander said ‘I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.
She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace.
She cursed her gender. Nobody would have dared attack her if she had been a man.
Stark raving mad.
To rest. Not to wakeup. Forgive me, Mimmi.
But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.
He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.
She did not just seem difficult – in his eyes she was the very quintessence of difficult.
This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.
Blomkvist had to tell the story from beginning to end. A couple of times Henrik interrupted with a question or asked him to repeat something. Frode said not a word. When the story was done, Henrik.
No, I don’t believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.
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.
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.
I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.
Oppurtunity Makes the Thief.
Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.
It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding.
She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
Take “no” as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say “yes” right away.
To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.