The Girl Who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson

Top 10 Best Quotes

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you.”

“Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.”

“Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.”

“Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.”

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”

“She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.”

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

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