There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.

Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are