Zalachenko...you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

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.

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

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

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

Being a homicide detective ca 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.