Stieg Gets It Quotes & Sayings

Then Pastor Falk leaned towards him and whispered, 'I think she's a Catholic. She loves magic and has not yet found her God. She needs guidance.'
The word 'Catholic' obviously had a negative connotation for Pastor Falk.
'I thought she was interested in the Pentecostal movement?'
'No, no, no, not the Pentecostals. She's looking for the forbidden truth. She is not a good Christian. — Stieg Larsson

To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf. — Stieg Larsson

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius. — Stieg Larsson

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

In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe. — Stieg Larsson

I can be a regular bitch. Just try me. — Stieg Larsson

The constitution had nothing to do with it. It was, after all, a matter of national security. — Stieg Larsson

Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organization, are simply practical extensions of the Right to Free Speech. On this law democracy stands or falls. — Stieg Larsson

I mean, I may not hold the record in cleaning house either, but if I've got old milk cartons that smell like maggots I bundle them up and put them out."
"I'm on a disability pension'" he said. "I'm socially incompetent. — Stieg Larsson

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences. — Stieg Larsson

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. — Stieg Larsson

You have to distinguish between two things - the Swedish economy and the Swedish stock market. The Swedish economy is the sum of all the goods and services that are produced in this country every day. There are telephones from Ericsson, cars from Volvo, chickens from Scan, and shipments from Kiruna to Skovde. That's the Swedish economy, and it's just as strong or weak today as it was a week ago ...
The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with the Swedish economy. — Stieg Larsson

Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish. — Stieg Larsson

What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl. — Stieg Larsson

She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time. — Stieg Larsson

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. — Stieg Larsson

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

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police. — Stieg Larsson

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. — Stieg Larsson

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all. — Stieg Larsson

Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics. — Stieg Larsson

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet. — Stieg Larsson

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like 'Who is the murderer?' The big question in most of our thrillers is ... 'Why?' — Michael Nyqvist

Hey, you fucking creep, in this shithole! I've got a monopoly on that one. — Stieg Larsson

I'm not arguing. I just think that it's pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame. — Stieg Larsson

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. — Stieg Larsson

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson. — Jo Nesbo

What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble. — Stieg Larsson

She marked off another day in her head. — Stieg Larsson

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

She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit. — Stieg Larsson

Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet. — Stieg Larsson

He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs. — Stieg Larsson

She cursed her gender. Nobody would have dared attack her if she had been a man. — Stieg Larsson