Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

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

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

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.