The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Quotes

Henrik Vanger: I apologize if you've been having financial problems at the magazine due to Mikael's absence.
Erika Berger: We'll work through them.
Henrik Vanger: Are you sure?
Martin Vanger: How long do you think you can hang on? Six months?
Erika Berger: That sounds about right.

Henrik Vanger: I used to be in the newspaper business. We owned six dailies back in the '50s.
Martin Vanger: We still own one. The Courier, here in town.
Henrik Vanger: Which I let my nephew, Birger, run because he can't run anything else.
Martin Vanger: So, what would you say to taking on a partner?

Erika Berger: Well, we've never had to consider it before. We value our independence very much.

Lisbeth Salander: Nobody is shooting at you now.
[Lisbeth removes her underwear]
Mikael Blomkvist: I'm not sure this is a good idea.
Lisbeth Salander: Why?
Mikael Blomkvist: Apart from the fact that I'm older and we work together so...
Lisbeth Salander: You work with "what's her

name" and that's worked out for you.
Mikael Blomkvist: I do have some standards believe it or not.
Lisbeth Salander: [Lisbeth takes her top off] You need to stop talking.

Bjurman: So how's Mr. Palmgren doing? I heard he had a stroke of some kind. It's terrible. Now what exactly do you do at this security company?
Lisbeth Salander: Make coffee. Sort mail.
Bjurman: But not full-time? Not even part-time consistently. They somehow got along without coffee or mail in July and August?
[looks through

paperwork]
Bjurman: How much do you make there?
Lisbeth Salander: Enough.
Bjurman: How much is your rent?
Lisbeth Salander: I pay my rent.
Bjurman: And when was the last time you were late?
Lisbeth Salander: Never.
Bjurman: You

think that thing through your eyebrow makes you attractive? Here's the problem. There is a discrepancy between the obligation of Mr. Palmgren's guardianship and the management of your finances.
Lisbeth Salander: There's no discrepancies. It was clear I could manage my own finances.
Bjurman: That is not clear to me.
Lisbeth

Salander: I'm not a child!
Bjurman: No you are not. But you were. And between then and now you were committed to the locked ward of St. Stefan's where you continued to display violent aggression. And you failed to adapt to four foster homes, arrested twice for intoxication, twice for narcotics, again for assault, smashing a bottle into a man's face. And it's not

even that long ago. You may have conned Mr. Palmgren into thinking that you have changed, but when I'm looking at this, not to mention the way you're looking at me now, I don't think you have. So the good old Mr. Palmgren days are over.

Martin Vanger: I apologize for my mother's behavior.
Mikael Blomkvist: I'm used to it.
Martin Vanger: It has nothing to do with you. It's between her and Henrik. She lost it when my father died. And her drinking and her... it got so bad Henrik took me and my sister away from her and left her excommunicated in the old house on the

other side of the island. She hasn't forgiven him. You must stay. You're the last chance Henrik has at some kind of resolution. Put this to rest one way or another. I'll keep my mother away. But please, hurry.
Mikael Blomkvist: Of course.

Dirch Frode: What can you tell me about Blomkvist?
Lisbeth Salander: Everything is in the report.
Dirch Frode: The short version.
Lisbeth Salander: Blomkvist got the nickname Kalle Blomkvist when he solved a bank robbery in the 80s. He's a very public person with no major secrets. Read the newspaper articles.

Dirch Frode: But does he have any secrets?
Lisbeth Salander: Everyone has secrets.

[first lines]
Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell: What kind is it?
Henrik Vanger: I don't know. White?
Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell: And the frame?
Henrik Vanger: Dark.
Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell: Postmark?
Henrik Vanger: Same as last time.

Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell: And no note.
Henrik Vanger: No.
Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell: I'm so sorry, Henrik.

Mikael Blomkvist: Why?
Martin Vanger: Why what?
Mikael Blomkvist: All of this?
Martin Vanger: Why not? I do what every man dreams of. I take what I want.
Mikael Blomkvist: How many women after the first?
Martin Vanger: I don't know. I've lost count. I had a girl

in that cage when we were dining upstairs. Those kind of women disappear all the time. No one misses them.