The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Quotes

“Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.”
― Stieg Larsson

“Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.”
― Stieg Larsson

“He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.”
― Larsson, Stieg, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Her problem was that she could not interpret her own feelings for him. Not since before reaching puberty had she lowered her guard to let another person get so close as she had with him. To be quite honest, he had a trying ability to penetrate her defences and to get her to talk about personal matters and private feelings. Even though she had enough sense to ignore most of his questions, she talked about herself in a way that she would never, even under the threat of death, have imagined doing with any other person. It frightened her and made her feel naked and vulnerable to his will.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“I’m not arguing. I just think that it’s pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame.”
― stieg larsson

“Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger”
― Larsson, Stieg

“People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson

“¿Podría rendir Stieg un homenaje más hermoso a las mujeres que el de convertirlas en heroínas de novelas políacas feministas y mostrarlas tal como las veía: libres, valientes y lo bastante fuertes para cambiar el mundo negándose a ser víctimas?”
― Eva Gabrielsson