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 reality or with the Swedish economy.

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

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.

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.