“There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.”

“I’m not arguing. I just think that it’s pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame.”

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

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

“Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.”

“I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.”

“Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.”