I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

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.

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

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.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.