The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Quotes

“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

“There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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

“Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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

“She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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

“Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“She did not just seem difficult – in his eyes she was the very quintessence of difficult.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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

“Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.”
― Stieg Larsson, 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

“I fell in love with you last winter. I didn’t mean to, but it happened. And then I took stock and realised that you were only here temporarily; one day you’ll be gone for good and I’ll stay here for the rest of my life. It hurt so damn much that I decided I wasn’t going to let you in again…”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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

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

“I spent the first twenty-five years of my life apologizing for people like Harald because we're family. Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love and I had a few reasons to defend Harald.”
― 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

“I've never had a boy in here," Martin said in a serious voice. "I've never touched another man, as a matter of fact. . . .except for my father. That was my duty."

Blomkvist's temples were pounding. He could not put his weight on his feet without being strangled. He tried to use his fingers to get a grip on the concrete wall behind him, but there was nothing to hold onto.

"It's time," Martin Vanger said.

He put a hand on the strap and pulled down. Blomkvist instantly felt the noose cut into his neck.

"I've always wondered how a man tastes."

He increased the pressure on the noose and leaned forward to kiss Blomkvist on the lips at the same time that a cold voice cut through the room.

"Hey you fucking creep, in this shithole I've got a monopoly on that one.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“I mean, I may not hold the record in cleaning house either, but if I've got old milk cartons that smell like maggots I bundle them up and put them out."
"I'm on a disability pension'" he said. "I'm socially incompetent.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo