She was afraid that it was a moral issue, and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever. Stieg Larsson
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I believe that Salander is right about one thing. She is an impossible friend. He isn’t allowing her to be who she is because he sees her as flawed. True, they share deep feelings for each other but the point is that she cannot be herself with him.

You can never compromise who you are or what you believe in to be accepted by others. We all have our faults, but if we let others see them, we will never be able to learn and grow.

Source: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

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