"Armansky felt so provoked by her lack of emotional response that sometimes he wanted to grab hold of her and shake her. To force his way into her shell and win her friendship, or at least her respect."
Page 44

"'Quite off the record, so to speak . . . I haven't studied this Wennerstrom affair properly, but I really think that Mikael Blomkvist was set up. I think there's something totally different in this story than what the court's verdict is indicating.'"
Lisbeth Salander
Page 54

"Lindberg could have had no notion of the extent of Blomkvist's contempt for people like Wennerstrom. For all that, after years of study, he was privately convinced that there was not a single bank director or celebrity corporate executive who wasn't also a cretin."
Page 64

"'To tell you the truth, I don't care whether the book is ever published. But I do think that the...