What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

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