You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

You were difficult enough to catch,” Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.

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