Steig Larsson Quotes - Page 3

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

  Steig Larsson

  Way, Apologizing

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• 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.

  Steig Larsson

  Tattoo, Girl, Zero

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• Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

  Steig Larsson

  Smart, Long, People

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• She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

  Steig Larsson

  Might, Schemes, Colour

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• He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

  Steig Larsson

  Eggshells, Walking, Pulling

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• I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

  Steig Larsson

  Father, Appreciate, Ungrateful

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

  Steig Larsson

  Nazi, Fascinating, Manage

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

  Steig Larsson

  Genius, Might, Social

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• She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

  Steig Larsson

  Realization, Indifference, Felt

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• ...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

  Steig Larsson

  Ideas, Handicapped, No Idea

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• It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

  Steig Larsson

  Men, People, Avoiding

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

  Steig Larsson

  Goes On, Candy, Within Reach

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• Zalachenko...you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.

  Steig Larsson

  Hate, Ordinary

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• He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

  Steig Larsson

  Ifs, Bites, Felt

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• And I guess that in some way I'm falling for you because you are who you are. It's easy to sleep with you because there's no bullshit and you make me feel safe. But this all started because I gave in to a crazy impulse. It doesn't happen very often, and I hadn't planned it.

  Steig Larsson

  Crazy, Fall, Sleep

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• 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.

  Steig Larsson

  Attitude, Fighting, Gun

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• I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

  Steig Larsson

  Want, Losing, Steady

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• But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

  Steig Larsson

  Courage, Legs, Hello

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• Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

  Steig Larsson

  Encouragement, Effort, Easier

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• Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him . . .that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.

  Steig Larsson

  Self Confidence, Bed, Ease

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• No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.

  Steig Larsson

  Clouds, Poison, Matter

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• We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

  Steig Larsson

  Needs, Subjects, Mines

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• In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

  Steig Larsson

  Simple, Cinema, Orcs

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• When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.

  Steig Larsson

  Knights, Purpose, Stories

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• Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

  Steig Larsson

  Falling In Love, Want, Might

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