Lisbeth Salander Quotes

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“Hey, you fucking creep, in this shithole! I've got a monopoly on that one.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“She had discovered that the most effective method of keeping the fear at bay was to fantasize about something that gave her a feeling of strength. She closed her eyes and conjured up the smell of gasoline.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Salander in love. What a fucking joke.”
― Stieg Larsson

“At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Her problem was that she could not interpret her own feelings for him. Not since before reaching puberty had she lowered her guard to let another person get so close as she had with him. To be quite honest, he had a trying ability to penetrate her defences and to get her to talk about personal matters and private feelings. Even though she had enough sense to ignore most of his questions, she talked about herself in a way that she would never, even under the threat of death, have imagined doing with any other person. It frightened her and made her feel naked and vulnerable to his will.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“To rest. Not to wakeup. Forgive me, Mimmi.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Then he realized that Salander was in costume. Usually her style was sloppy and rather tasteless. Blomkvist had assumed that she was not really interested in fashion, but that she tried instead to accentuate her own individuality. Salander always seemed to mark her private space as hostile territory, and he had thought of the rivets in her leather jacket as a defense mechanism, like the quills of a hedgehog. To everyone around her it was as good a signal as any: Don't try to touch me—it will hurt.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

“Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organised.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Within mathematics, assertions must always be proven mathematically and expressed in a valid and scientifically correct formula. The mathematician must be able to stand on a podium and say the words 'This is so because …”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Okay, I'll stop, but if anything happens, just ask yourself, WELSD?"

"Mom-"

"No, I mean it. anytime you get into a hairy situation, ask yourself: What would Lisbeth Salander do?" She gave her daughter a minute, then prompted her. "Well?"

"After a heavy sigh, Auri replied. "She'd stab a bitch."

"Exactly. And if that doesn't work?"

Another sigh. "She'd set a bitch on fire."

Precisely. And if that doesn't work?"

"Mom," Auri whined, shifting in her seat.

"If that doesn't work?"

"Fine. She'd eviscerate a bitch's online presence and get him or her sent to prison for kiddie porn.”
― Darynda Jones, A Bad Day for Sunshine

“Lisbeth Salander era la mujer que odiaba a los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire