Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.
I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.
Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.