Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN
Katherine BooIt 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 they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.
Katherine BooI've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him
Katherine BooTag: trust
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.
Katherine BooTag: trust
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.
Katherine BooTag: trust
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
Katherine BooTag: truth
.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
Katherine BooTag: opportunity poverty india
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 moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die
I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.
Katherine BooThe Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.
Katherine BooTag: justice
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