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

When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

His attitude had always been that if a woman clearly indicated that she did not want anything more to do with him, he would go on his way. Not respecting such a message would in his eyes, show a lack of respect for her.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

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.