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    Stieg Larsson
    “Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand
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    Alistair MacLean
    “This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.”
    ― Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare
    tags: humour, maclean
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    Eoin Colfer
    “If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Stieg Larsson
    “It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that skinny girl. Unlike other girls in the class, she never backed down, and she would not for a second hesitate to use her fists or any weapon at hand to protect herself. She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand
    tags: humour, luck
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate
    tags: bartimaeus, intelligence
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  • #9
    Stieg Larsson
    “I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: humorous
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  • #10
    Stieg Larsson
    “Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Ring of Solomon
    tags: humor, plan, strategy
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    Stieg Larsson
    “I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.”
    ― Steig Larson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: enemies-and-opposition, inspirational
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.”
    ― Steig Larssen, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: alcoholics, attraction, couples
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    Stieg Larsson
    “In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Hey, you fucking creep, in this shithole! I've got a monopoly on that one.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: lisbeth-salander
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    Stieg Larsson
    “He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by
    desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well
    together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.”
    ― Steig Larssen, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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  • #17
    Stieg Larsson
    “Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Stieg Larsson
    “As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: gender-inequality, gender-inequality-quotes, mysogyny, patriarchal-society, rape-culture, social-status, victim-blaming, vulnerability
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  • #19
    Stieg Larsson
    “Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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  • #20
    Stieg Larsson
    “She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: funny, make-up
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  • #21
    Stieg Larsson
    “She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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  • #22
    Stieg Larsson
    “She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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  • #23
    Stieg Larsson
    “It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: cry, crying, good, no
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  • #24
    Stieg Larsson
    “Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: abusive-men, abusive-people, child-abuse-survivor, excusing-evil, inexcusable, making-excuses, rape-culture, rapists
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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  • #26
    Jonathan Stroud
    “According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate
    tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud
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    Jonathan Stroud
    “One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand
    tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud
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  • #28
    Jonathan Stroud
    “Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."

    "That is a footstool.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye
    tags: humor
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  • #29
    Jonathan Stroud
    “Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye
    tags: bartimaeus
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  • #30
    Jonathan Stroud
    “Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand
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