The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Quotes
"Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are."
"He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs."
"Calling attention to crimes can hardly be considered an indication that someone is left-wing."
"I don't want to claim that I know exactly what demands are made on a journalist."
"If Millennium is going to survive, it depends on you now."
"I'm going to take some time for myself for a while, some of it in prison. Then we'll see."
"During the eighties, when they were not bound by other relationships, they had talked of moving in together."
"Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple."
"But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other."
"That kind of relationship was almost bound to cause pain."
"Just as Salander had guessed, it was his continual infidelity that drove his wife to leave."
"Blomkvist could not sleep, and at 4:00 he gave up."
"He had voted only once in a parliamentary election-in 1982-and then he had hesitantly plumped for the Social Democrats."
"A bank director who blows millions on foolhardy speculations should not keep his job."
"The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors."
"But today Millennium has to get out of the spotlight."
"Some day we're going to nail Herr Wennerström so hard Wall Street is going to jump out of its socks."
"She even divided up her holiday so she could spend two weeks with her lover in his summer cabin at Sandhamn."
"Blomkvist had no trouble imagining that champagne bottles had been uncorked in some newspapers' back rooms that evening."
"It's as directed at me, precisely as if the murderer wants to torture me."
"I'm a man who's going to die soon. There's one thing in the world I want to have-and that's an answer to this question that has plagued me for half my life."
"I can give you Hans-Erik Wennerström. I can prove that he's a swindler."
"Honestly, you both know perfectly well it doesn't matter what I think."
"This isn't an argument, Malm thought. It's a divorce."
"We've spent too much time working our hearts out for that."
"I'm not functioning anymore. I'm burned out."
"The whole thing is idiotic, Mikael. You might as well take a job in a circus."
"Round Two has already started—he's going to try to sink Millennium for good."
"We have to retreat and work out a whole new strategy."
"Relax. Go out to Sandhamn and look at the waves."
"Wennerström is going to crush Millennium unless he is appeased by my having stood down."
"What makes me so cross is that you're abandoning ship all of a sudden."
"People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are."
"Salander devoted a week to planning Nils Bjurman's demise. She considered-and rejected-various methods until she had narrowed it down to a few realistic scenarios from which to choose. No acting on impulse."
"Only one condition had to be fulfilled. Bjurman had to die in such a way that she herself could never be linked to the crime."
"If her name came up, she would be a helpless, incompetent girl with documents showing her to be mentally deficient."
"She rejected the option of using a gun. Acquiring a gun would be no great problem, but the police were awfully good at tracking down firearms."
"Finally she settled on poison. The choice surprised her, but on closer consideration it was perfect."
"Salander had had no idea that so many household products could be transformed into deadly weapons."
"By the end of February Blomkvist fell into a daily routine that transformed his stay in Hedeby."
"For all his reading and listening, Blomkvist had made not an inch of progress in the Harriet Vanger case."
"No crime is perfect," Vanger said. "I'm sure we must have missed something."
"The telephone numbers," he said at last. "They have to mean something."
"She realised much too late that she had utterly misjudged Bjurman."
"She did not cry. Apart from the tears of pure physical pain she shed not a single tear."
"Salander spent the week in bed with pain in her abdomen, bleeding from her rectum, and less visible wounds that would take longer to heal."
"Blomkvist and Cecilia Vanger woke up when the front door opened and someone was walking through the kitchen."
"It was as they shared a cigarette some time after midnight that he told her they could not see each other for a while."
"Cecilia turned her face to him in surprise. 'What do you mean?'"
"I'm going to speak plainly," she said. "This video shows you raping a mentally handicapped twenty-four-year-old girl for whom you were appointed guardian."
"I don't think you and I are going to be good friends," Salander said.
"You ruined my life, Cecilia Vanger thought. You ruined my life when I was just a child."
"The only problem was that although it shed light on the chain of events it brought him not one iota closer to solving the mystery."
"He thought long and hard about what role Cecilia Vanger might have played in the drama."
"Now a hitherto unknown photograph was telling him that she had lied."
"And if you lied about that, what else did you lie about?"
"He sighed and pushed the amateur psychology aside."
"He would never find that out unless he could invent a time machine and stand behind her, looking over her shoulder."
"He opened the folder with Nylund's photographs from the crowd."
"He stared at the image until his eyes began to water."
"He's been doing that for years. That's why they don't talk much."
"I'm proud of you, and I never miss a chance to brag about the fact that you went to prison for what you believe in."
"I saw the quotes you had on the wall," she said. "But why so gloomy and neurotic?"
"The conditions of your employment don't change."
"She had never brooded over whether she was straight, gay, or even bisexual."
"She respected the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in."
"I'm not here to make trouble for you."
"Journalists who falsify material are idiots."
"You've never let anything like that stand in your way before."
"For the first time in her life Salander had a bustline that made her-when she glanced at herself in the full-length mirror-catch her breath."
"At times they were so loud that they caused a certain amount of irritation among the other guests."
"She left absurd tips, which certainly made the staff notice her."
"She spent quite a while allowing herself to be picked up by a drunk young Italian."
"When he went to the bathroom, she poured one last glass of wine."
"She opened a folded piece of paper and spiked the wine with a crushed Rohypnol sleeping tablet."
"Before leaving her room, she spent five minutes wiping off fingerprints."
"The credit card she also cut up and put the bits in five different rubbish bins."
"After a moment of anxious hesitation, Irene Nesser decided to keep the fake latex breasts."
"She stood there sipping at her coffee as the train rolled out of Oslo."
"What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."
"She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was."
"Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings."