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.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

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

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.