Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

It was completely impossible to box with her. She had only one style, which we called Terminator Mode. She would try to nail her opponent, and it didn’t matter if it was just a warm-up of friendly sparring.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

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.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.