"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)

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

"Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look."
— Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)