Stieg Larsson > Quotes

“What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“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."
(Mikael Blomkvist)”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
― Stieg Larsson

“Friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Nobody can avoid falling in love... They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.”
― 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

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Kalle Fucking Blomkvist”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close.

She would probably bite him if he tried.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.”
― Stieg Larsson

“I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson

“If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“A bastard is always a bastard, and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“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.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire

“I don't give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign here that you received it and you can get drunk in peace.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“I don't know how much you understand about what is happening outside your locked room, but strangely enough (despite your personality), you have a number of loyal idiots working on your behalf. I have already established an elite body called The Knights of the Idiotic Table. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we'll have fun talking crap about you. (No, you're not invited).”
― 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 don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

“It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest