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Steig Larsson

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Steig Larsson
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There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.
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There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.
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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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You're an entropic chaos factor
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Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.
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Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people. It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.
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It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.
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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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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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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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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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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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