The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

People always have secrets. It’s just a matter of finding out what they are.

“You have beautiful eyes,” he said.
“You have nice eyes yourself,” she said.

There was nowhere to plug in the broadband cable. He did not even have a telephone jack to connect an old dial-up modem.
Blomkvist called the Telia telephone company from his mobile.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst

People always have secrets. It’s just a matter of finding out what they are

In hindsight, this was a mistake

The only problem was finding a guy who was not a jerk and one who was also good in bed;

His lady friend joined them for dinner. Eva was a warm, sociable, and entertaining woman. Blomkvist found her extraordinarily attractive. She was a dentist and lived in Hedestad, but she spent the weekends at Martin’s home. Blomkvist gradually learned that they had known each other for many years but that they had not started going out together until they were middle-aged.

Vanger’s investigation into the disappearance of his brother’s granddaughter had been going on for thirty-six years. Blomkvist wondered whether this was an unhealthy obsession or whether, over the years, it had developed into an intellectual game.

It was 7:08-he had never been much of a morning person, and it used to be hard for him to wake up without having at least two alarm clocks.