The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Quotes

Lisbeth Salander: Something wrong with the report?
Dirch Frode: No, no. It was quite thorough. I'm more interested in what's not in it.
Lisbeth Salander: There's nothing "not in it".
Dirch Frode: Your opinion of him isn't .
Lisbeth Salander: He's clean, in my opinion.

Dirch Frode: You mean he's hygienic?

Bjurman: Have you ever had any sexually transmitted diseases? And when was the last time you were tested for HIV? How many partners have you had in the last month? And how many of those were men? It's regulation I have to ask these things. It's a health matter.
Lisbeth Salander: Write what you want.
Bjurman: Why do you need such an

expensive computer?
Lisbeth Salander: For work.
Bjurman: Making coffees. Sorting mail.
Lisbeth Salander: I shouldn't even have to ask. I should have control of my money.
Bjurman: And you will once you learn to be sociable. Get along with people. Can you do that? Why don't we start with that. Why don't

we start with me? You do something for me, I do something for you. It's what normal people do. I want you to have that computer.

Lisbeth Salander: Rebecka was the first, just as you thought. The second, M.H., is Mari Holmberg, a prostitute in Kalmar. Murdered in 1954 matching Leviticus 20:18.
Mikael Blomkvist: If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, he has made naked her fountain and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood.
Lisbeth Salander: She

was raped and stabbed, but the cause of death was suffocation with a sanitary napkin.
Mikael Blomkvist: Okay.
Lisbeth Salander: R.L., Rakel Lunde. 1957. A cleaning woman and part-time palm reader. Tied with a clothesline, gagged, raped. Head crushed with a rock. Leviticus 20:27.
Mikael Blomkvist: A woman who is a medium or

sorceress shall be put to death by stoning.
Lisbeth Salander: Sara Witt, 1964. Daughter of a pastor. Tied to her bed. Raped. Charred in the fire that burned down her house. Leviticus 21:9.
Mikael Blomkvist: The daughter of a priest who profanes herself by playing the harlot profanes her father and shall be burned with fire.
Lisbeth

Salander: Magda Lovisa Sjoberg, 1960. Found in a barn. Stabbed and raped with farm tools. The cow in the next stall had its throat slit. Its blood was splashed on her and hers on it.
Mikael Blomkvist: Leviticus 20:16. If a woman lies with any beast You shall kill the woman and the beast. Their blood is upon them.
Lisbeth Salander: Lea

Persson, 1962. Found by her sister in their pet shop. Raped, beaten. The killer uncaged the animals, smashed the aquariums. There was a parakeet inside her. Next, Eva Gustavsson, 1960. A runaway. Raped, strangled. A burnt pigeon tied around her neck. Lena Andersson, 1967. A student. Raped, stabbed, decapitated.
Mikael Blomkvist: [interrupts] Okay.

Martin Vanger: It might amuse you that while you were upstairs having moose with me and Liv, who, by the way, finds me conventional, I had Irina down there in that cage.
Martin Vanger: [points to cage and Mikael sees it]
Martin Vanger: Who's Irina, you might ask? Just another girl. Just another immigrant whore. Who misses them?

Mikael Blomkvist: Your sister wasn't.
Martin Vanger: [confused] What?
Mikael Blomkvist: Your sister Harriet wasn't just another girl.
Martin Vanger: You found her.
[grabs Mikael by the neck]
Martin Vanger: What happened to her?
Mikael Blomkvist:

[suffocating] You... killed her.
Martin Vanger: [lets go of Mikael's neck] You useless fucking detective.

Harald Vanger: I'm not a recluse; I don't close my door to anyone. They just don't visit
Mikael Blomkvist: Perhaps if you redecorated?
Harald Vanger: Hide the past like they do? under a thin shiny veneer? like an IKEA table? I am the most honest of all of them
Mikael Blomkvist: The family?

Harald Vanger: Sweden