She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.

Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan of pleasure. A massage from Mimi was a fantastic experience, and she felt like a kitten who just wanted to purr and wave its paws around.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

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

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