Steig Larsson Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Gone, Earth, Foxes

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• You were difficult enough to catch,” Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.

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  Long, Looks, Waste

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• It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.

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  Enemy, Weapons, Matter

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• 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.

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  Army, Opportunity, People

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• I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

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  Character, Crime Novels, People

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• She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.

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  Track, House, Knuckles

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• 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.

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  Desire, Together, Connections

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

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  Criminals, Fraud

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• The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, and every sort of conspiracy theorist.

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  Media, People, World

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• Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

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  Giving Up, Men, Battle

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• their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.

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  Loyal, Tests, Matter

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• He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

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  Pigs, Three, Littles

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• There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.

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  Believe, Rumours, Malicious

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• You're an entropic chaos factor

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  Chaos, Factors

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

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  Lovers, Married, Occasional

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• Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

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  Men, Hello, Motive

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• Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

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  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.

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  Couple, Together, Liquor Stores

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• I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

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  Two, Stories, Detectives

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• I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.

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  Positive, Fighting, Hands

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• Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.

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  Kids, Giving, Bullshit

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• Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

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  Life Lesson, Guarantees, Related

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

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  Believe, Hatred, Desperation

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• From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

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  Attitude, Chance, Capitulation

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• Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

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  Hurt, Doors, Mind

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