Family Quotes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph). We used Reg Keeland/a.k.a. Steven T. Murray's English language translation.
| Quote #7 The image that was emerging revealed a family that was socially and financially successful, but in all the more ordinary aspects was quite clearly dysfunctional. (9.138) |
Blomkvist doesn't know the half of it at this point. Nazis, serial killers, incest. Scary stuff. But this clan also has some good people: Henrik, Cecilia, Anita, Harriet, Alexander… They provide hope and a counterpoint to gruesome siblings.
| Quote #8 [Cecilia:] "It's funny. Martin has turned out to be a really fine person. If you had asked me thirty-five years ago, I would have said he was the one the family who needed psychiatric help." (12.169) |
Martin has Cecilia completely fooled, too. We wonder if there were signs that Henrik, Cecilia, and Dirch Frode will think of now that they know the truth.
| Quote #9 She had wanted to be close to her lost father – was it a period of mourning she needed to get through? (15.174) |
Blomkvist is so wrong at this moment. He assumes Harriet and Gottfried had a good relationship. Even knowing the fact that Gottfried dies before Harriet disappears, Blomkvist doesn't make any connections.
