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The Girl Who Played With Fire
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Stieg Larsson
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The Girl Who Played With Fire Quotes
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Identity Quotes
[Blomkvist] had come to realize she was a world class hacker, and within an exclusive international community devoted to computer crime at the highest level – and not only to combating it ...
Friendship Quotes
[Blomkvist] was not in love with her – they were as unlike as two people could be – but he was very fond of her and he really missed her, as exasperating as she sometimes was. (1.43)
Family Quotes
[Salander's] mother [Agneta] had spent ten years at Äppelviken, and it was where she finally died at only forty-six, after one last annihilating cerebral hemorrhage. (5.1)
Gender Quotes
He's planning to murder her. Forty million in the pot. The storm is his camouflage. This is his chance. (3.79)
Violence Quotes
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand. (Prologue.31)
Sex Quotes
[George Bland] evidently thought that life had become much more interesting. He had met a woman who was teaching him about mathematics and eroticism. (1.141)
Criminality Quotes
[Blomkvist] had come to realize she was a world class hacker, and within an exclusive international community devoted to computer crime at the highest level – and not only to combating it ...
Isolation Quotes
After Salander's nighttime visit to his apartment [Bjurman] had felt paralyzed – thoroughly incapable of clear thought or decisive action. He had locked himself in [and] did not answer the te...
Justice and Judgment Quotes
Dag: "It's a tremendous assault on human rights, and the girls involved are so far down society's ladder that they're of no interest to the legal system. […] Of all the crimes involving the s...
Technology and Modernization Quotes
[Blomkvist] had come to realize she was a world class hacker, and within an exclusive international community devoted to computer crime at the highest level – and not only to combating it ...