[quotes] The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 2008

 


"It put greater demands on the employees' judgement and experience than on their knowledge of telecommunications technology or the installation of surveillance apparatus."

"She had a wide mouth, a small nose, and high cheekbones that gave her an almost Asian look."

"He thought about his own Muslim upbringing, which had taught him that it was his duty to God to help the outcasts."

"It was not a sexual attraction, at least he did not think so. The women he was usually attracted to were blonde and curvaceous, with full lips that aroused his fantasies."

"'But I also want you to feel some sort of friendship and trust in me.'"

"His mother, as far as I could see, was never anything but a housewife."

"The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors"

"He sat on the kitchen bench and tried to read a novel which, according to the back cover text, was the sensational debut of a teenage feminist."

"He was no more a Nazi than I was, but for convenience he was a member of the party. His membership card opened doors and facilitated opportunities for the Vanger Corporation - and business was precisely what we did."

"The Swastika and the Wasa Sheaf, which dealt with the symbols adopted by the German and Swedish Nazis."

"The only problem was finding a guy who was not a jerk and who was also good in bed."

"And then I want the Vanger Corporation to donate 2 million kronor annually and in perpetuity to the National Organisation for Women's Crisis Centres and Girls' Crisis Centres in Sweden."

"After September 11 it was not a good idea to attract attention by having any sharp objects in your baggage."

"Cecilia will play an active role on the board. She and Harriet will be in charge of the firm from now."

"What do you need me for? 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. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence