It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes t…

- Katherine Boo

What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with you Where you don't want to go, you have to go And the mom…

- Katherine Boo

One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know t…

- Katherine Boo

My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be…

- Katherine Boo

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions …

- Katherine Boo

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyu…

- Katherine Boo

Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turn…

- Katherine Boo

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

- Katherine Boo

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

- Katherine Boo