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1 " What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst. "
― Stieg Larsson , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
2 " Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love! "
3 " I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back. "
4 " She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind. "
5 " Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble. "
6 " Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem. "
7 " I can be a regular bitch. Just try me. "
8 " It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. "
9 " 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. "
10 " Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics. "
11 " She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover. "
12 " Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity. "
13 " We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine. "
14 " -Who knows about this?-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you. "
15 " Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other. "
16 " As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status. "
17 " 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. "
18 " Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds. "
19 " You have to distinguish between two things - the Swedish economy and the Swedish stock market. The Swedish economy is the sum of all the goods and services that are produced in this country every day. There are telephones from Ericsson, cars from Volvo, chickens from Scan, and shipments from Kiruna to Skovde. That's the Swedish economy, and it's just as strong or weak today as it was a week ago...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 the Swedish economy. "
20 " 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. "
