The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye Quotes

“Life often looks its best from a distance.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get away with it.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“He was little more than a hammer with which to beat people over the head, an instrument for”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“hereditary factors in conjunction with our unique environment are the primary factors in shaping our personalities.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“He did not come across as a crook . But then crooks are often very good at presenting the,selves as the saintliness of saints, and Blomkvist was not go8ng to let hi,self be impressed by the large amounts of money Mannheimer apparently gave to charity, or the fact that he seemed bright and modest.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“the financial market is not something that exists like you or I, Karin, or this bottle of water on the table. The moment we stop believing in it, it ceases to exist.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Many people feel they are missing someone”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“first you find out the truth. then you take revenge.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Heredity and environment interact constantly, Hilda wrote. We seek out occurrences and activities which stimulate our genes and make them flourish, and we avoid things which frighten us or make us uncomfortable.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Hilda argued that our fate is more likely determined by what she called our “unique environment”—the one we do not share with anyone, not even our siblings. It is the environment we seek out and create for ourselves, for example, when we find something which delights and fascinates us and drives us in a certain direction.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“He understood immediately, and asked, ‘What about the fire the dragon is breathing?’ I said it was the same fire that burns inside everyone who is being trampled on. The same fire that can turn us into ashes and waste, but which sometimes, if some old fool like Holger spots us, plays chess with us and talks to us and just takes an interest, can become something totally different: a force which allows us to strike back.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Given his age, Jan Bublanski was afraid of many things. But perhaps he feared the absence of doubt most of all. He was a man of faith who was uncomfortable in the face of convictions too strongly held or over-simplified explanations. He was forever producing counter-arguments and contrary hypotheses. Nothing was so certain that it could not be challenged one more time.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Identical twins have identical genes, pretty much,” he said. “Certain”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“the”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“how the sensational always sticks in the mind and stands out at the expense of the ordinary, which – maybe precisely because it is so ordinary – tells us something more significant about the real world.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“was unworthy, almost dishonest, to put a number on somebody’s capacities.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Hilda argued that our fate is more likely determined by what she called our “unique environment”—the one we do not share with anyone, not even our siblings. It is the environment we seek out and create for ourselves, for example, when we find something which delights and fascinates us and drives us in a certain direction. Rather like Blomkvist’s reaction as a young boy, perhaps, when he saw the film All the President’s Men and was struck by a strong urge to become a journalist. Heredity and environment interact constantly, Hilda wrote. We seek out occurrences and activities which stimulate our genes and make them flourish, and we avoid things which frighten us or make us uncomfortable. She based her conclusions on a series of studies, among others MISTRA, the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, and investigations by the Swedish Twin Registry at the Karolinska Institute. Identical twins, or so-called monozygotic twins, with their essentially indistinguishable sets of genes, are ideal subjects. Thousands of twins, both identical and fraternal, grow up apart from each other, either because one or both have been adopted, or, more rarely, as the result of some unfortunate mix-up in a maternity ward.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“The environmental factors said to be most influential in shaping us were not those he had predicted. The essay suggested that mothers and fathers are often convinced they have a decisive influence over their children’s development, but they “flatter themselves.” Hilda argued that our fate is more likely determined by what she called our “unique environment”—the one we do not share with anyone, not even our siblings. It is the environment we seek out and create for ourselves, for example, when we find something which delights and fascinates us and drives us in a certain direction.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“If I've learned anything over the years, it's that the truth is generally a little unexpected, or even illogical, since we humans aren't entirely rational. Whereas lies, as a rule, tend to be consistent and comprehensive and often sound like a cliché - especially if the liars aren't very good.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“But the world had gone mad, in his opinion. Lies and stupidity were more widespread than ever before. Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything, sometimes even penetrating the discussions within his own, otherwise sensible team.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“He had pored over old photographs,”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“I.Q doesn’t mean a thing. Göring had a high I.Q. you can still be an idiot. - Leo Mannheimer”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Faria Kazi heard them and thought of”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world around her.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye