The Girl in the Spider's Web 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“star stays alive as a result of two opposing actions, the fusion at its core forcing it outwards and the gravitational pull keeping it together. She saw it as a balancing act, a tug of war from which a victor eventually emerges, once the fuel for the reactions runs out and the explosions weaken. When gravity gains the upper hand, the celestial body shrinks like a punctured balloon and becomes smaller and smaller. In this way, a star can vanish into nothing. Salander liked black holes. She felt an affinity to them.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“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

“Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.”
― 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

“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

“These days you can’t do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.”
― 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

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

“we’re equal before the law—if we pay the same amount.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and – who knows – perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?” “No.” “She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“the one who hates men who…” “…hate women.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web