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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) QUOTES

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) QUOTES

1 " She was afraid that it was a moral issue, and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

2 " This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for? "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

3 " History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

4 " You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

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She hesitated. For two years she had kept as far away from Mikael Blomkvist as she could. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net it was O.K. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his. She looked at him for a moment and realized that she now had no feelings for him. At least not those kinds of feelings. He had in fact been a good friend to her over the past year. She trusted him. Maybe. It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding. Then she made up her mind. It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist. It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

6 " If you want to win, you're going to have to fight. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

7 " The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

8 " Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

9 " Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

10 " Then he realized that Salander was in costume. Usually her style was sloppy and rather tasteless. Blomkvist had assumed that she was not really interested in fashion, but that she tried instead to accentuate her own individuality. Salander always seemed to mark her private space as hostile territory, and he had thought of the rivets in her leather jacket as a defense mechanism, like the quills of a hedgehog. To everyone around her it was as good a signal as any: Don't try to touch me—it will hurt. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

11 " Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

12 " I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

13 " I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

14 " Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

15 " But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

16 " If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

17 " What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

18 " It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

19 " I don't know how much you understand about what is happening outside your locked room, but strangely enough (despite your personality), you have a number of loyal idiots working on your behalf. I have already established an elite body called The Knights of the Idiotic Table. We will be holding an annual dinner at which we'll have fun talking crap about you. (No, you're not invited). "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

20 " When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred. "

― Stieg Larsson , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)