Sakarias Larsson Quotes

But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows. ~ Stieg Larsson

Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as crucial to next-stage evolution as ending race slavery was to the last stage. It's a noble fight, not least because the various fundamentalisms threatening Western democracy are united in their urgent need to re-cage women's sexuality. ~ Elizabeth Farrelly

I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art."
~Larsson TIGER ~ Pet Torres

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. ~ Stieg Larsson

She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. ~ Stieg Larsson

It was this simple. Some had it. Others would always falter when it came to the crunch. ~ Stieg Larsson

Listen, kid, you shouldn't work so bloody hard. Sometimes it's a goos idea just to let go and scream a bit."
Let go she thought. What happens if you find out you keep on falling? ~ Asa Larsson

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know. ~ Stieg Larsson

As psychiatrists we must teach ourselves to interpret the overall picture. With regard to Lisbeth Salander, you can see on her body, for example, a multitude of tattoos and piercings, which are a form of self-destructive behaviour and a way of damaging one's own body. We can interpret that as a manifestation of self-hate." Giannini turned to Salander. "Are your tattoos a manifestation of self-hate?" she said. "No," Salander said. Giannini ~ Stieg Larsson

Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations - riddles that could be solved. The trick was not to solve arithmetical problems. Five times five would always be twenty-five. The trick was to understand combinations of the various rules that made it possible to solve any mathematical problem whatsoever. ~ Stieg Larsson

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson. ~ David Lagercrantz

[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the friends he cherished and wished to honor. ~ Eva Gabrielsson

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. ~ Stieg Larsson

Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers ~ Stieg Larsson

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand? ~ Stieg Larsson

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

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

You could get pretty angry with less provocation. She ~ Stieg Larsson

It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant. ~ Asa Larsson

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look. ~ Stieg Larsson

IF YOU TRY TO RUN AWAY FROM ME AGAIN, I'LL FIND YOU EVEN IF YOU ARE IN HELL!" ~Larsson TIGER ~ Pet Torres

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving. ~ Stieg Larsson

How can this dog be such an easy victim? A dog who was mistreated by her previous owner over and over again. Why doesn't she recognize evil when she runs straight into its arms? Because she has the ability to forget. Burrows down into the feathery snow and is pleased to see anyone who streches out a hand to her. And now she is lying here. ~ Asa Larsson

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

That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten. ~ Asa Larsson

The reason I work out is that it feels great. That's a normal phenomenon among people who do extreme training. The body produces a pain-suppressing chemical and you become addicted to it. If you don't run every day, you get withdrawal symptoms after a while. You feel an enormous sense of well-being when you give something your all. It's almost as powerful as good sex. ~ Stieg Larsson

This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration. ~ Stieg Larsson

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity. ~ Stieg Larsson

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters. ~ Stieg Larsson

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

What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks. ~ Stieg Larsson

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much does the hotel room cost? Conversation also had a professional function. [ ... ] When she worked as a researcher [ ... ], she had never minded having a long conversation if it was to ferret out facts. On the other hand, she disliked personal discussions, which always led to snooping around in areas she considered private. ~ Stieg Larsson

I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over ~ Stieg Larsson

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. ~ Stieg Larsson

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. ~ Stieg Larsson

Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organised. ~ Stieg Larsson

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks. ~ Stieg Larsson

Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet. ~ 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

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. ~ Stieg Larsson

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first ~ Henrik Larsson

As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. ~ Magnus Larsson

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. ~ 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

Cuando llega la hora, llega la hora. A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do and all that crap. ~ Stieg Larsson

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore. ~ Noomi Rapace

O.K., a band. You already have loads of tattoos. Are you sure you want another one? ~ Stieg Larsson