To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

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

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

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.

She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.