Violence 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 [Martin:] "[…] I'm more of a serial rapist than a serial murderer. […] most of all, I'm a serial kidnapper. The killing is a natural consequence – so to speak – because I have to hide my crime." (24.26) |
As Salander discovers in Martin's "death book" (25.8), he basically stalks every woman he encounters and, from all of these, picks the victims who are least likely to be missed.
| Quote #8 He slipped the leather strap through a loop above Blomkvist's head and then tightened it so he was forced to stand on tiptoes. (24.89) |
Blomkvist is the first of Martin's victims to enter the basement and exit alive.
| Quote #9 [Salander:] "Do you like pain, creep?" (24.102) |
This line is sure to make it into the Hollywood version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She doles out pain to Martin with one of his CEO toys, a golf club.
