Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?

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.

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.

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

I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

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.