David Lagercrantz > Quotes

“Ha, no, that it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less. It’s the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Money talks, bullshit walks.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“It wasn’t just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“How come all lunatics and murderers are religious these days?”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Life often looks its best from a distance.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Sometimes things go wrong, no matter how careful you are.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There’s a fundamental democratic logic to it.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Are you insane?” “Probably, yes,” she said. “Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get away with it.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“You can take the kid away from the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto away from the kid”
― David Lagercrantz Zlatan Ibrahimović

“Faste is an idiot.” “No, Jan, he isn’t. He’s just …” “What?” “Conservative. He’s not someone who falls for the latest feminist fads.” “Or for the earliest ones either. He may have just got his head around all that stuff about votes for women.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“He was little more than a hammer with which to beat people over the head, an instrument for”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

“Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“These days you can’t do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less. It’s the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is that what happened here?”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Lived Twice

“To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Wait, Ed. Did you say she?” “You better believe it. Our hacker’s a she!”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Gut feeling is often a better tool than all the psychological theories in the world.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“Many people feel they are missing someone”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye