Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

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.

He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

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

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.