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 often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

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

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein