Stieg Larsson Quotes (74 Quotes)
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- Salander assessed the situation and saw that it was anything but under control. Her brain was working at high speed. Click, click, click.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest")
- 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.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Played With Fire")
- He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
- 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, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
- Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest")
- I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Played With Fire")
- 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.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
- Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
- A vingança é uma força poderosa
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest")
- 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.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest")
- I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Played With Fire")
- 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.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
- She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")
- 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.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest")
- She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
(Stieg Larsson, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest")
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