The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Quotes

Pernilla Blomkvist: Don't go too hard on the Catholics!
Mikael Blomkvist: What's that?
Pernilla Blomkvist: The article you are writing about.
Mikael Blomkvist: I'm not writing an article on the Catholics.
Pernilla Blomkvist: The Bible quotes by your desk!

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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.

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Armansky: She's different in every way.

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Martin Vanger: Bring your drink, leave my knife.

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Mikael Blomkvist: I may have found something.
Frode: You're joking! What have you found?
Mikael Blomkvist: The last time I reported on something without being absolutely sure I lost my life savings.

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Lisbeth Salander: [to Palmgren]I got a call from social welfare. I've been assigned a new guardian.

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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.

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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

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Lisbeth Salander: Hello Martin!

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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.

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Armansky: The reason you can find no record of her is because her records have been sealed. She's a ward of the state.
Mikael Blomkvist: What's that got to do with anything?
Armansky: She's had a rough life. Can we please not make it any rougher?

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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.

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[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.

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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.

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Martin Vanger: [to Mikael]Why didn't you just go home?

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Lisbeth Salander: There's one reason she hasn't called Harriet. Because she can't. Because Harriet is dead.
Mikael Blomkvist: Really?
Lisbeth Salander: Fuck me.
Mikael Blomkvist: [Mikael and Lisbeth are having sex]You know, I was just thinking...
Lisbeth Salander: Just one second. Fuck! Let's cum at the same time.
Mikael Blomkvist: I'm ahead of you.
Lisbeth Salander: [They both climax]Fuck! What were you going to say?
Mikael Blomkvist: I was just thinking there might be another possibility.

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Lisbeth Salander: You need to stop talking.

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Henrik Vanger: The enemy of my enemy is... my enemy.

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Lisbeth Salander: If you touch me I'll more than alarm you.

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Bjurman: Would you prefer institutionalization?

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Bjurman: I forgot to ask you. [rips open condom package]
Bjurman: You like anal sex?

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Mikael Blomkvist: Can I call you Lisbeth?

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Erika Berger: Our credibility isn't dead yet.
Mikael Blomkvist: Mine is.

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Bjurman: You do something for me, I do something for you.

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Harriet: If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it you shall kill the woman and the beast. Their blood will be upon them.

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