If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.