“From a purely physical standpoint she didn’t have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.”

“Kalle Fucking Blomkvist”

“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.”

“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”