Quotes by Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength—that he could c — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filte — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains h — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sun — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is. — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
He wanted to go home to the place that he hated. — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Like most young Annawadians, the girls considered the caste obsession of their elders to be an irrelevant artifact. Manj — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common pr — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
A few weeks ago, Abdul had seen a boy’s hand cut clean off when he was putting plastic into one of the shredders. The bo — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Though Abdul had been as afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did not disturb him. Being terrorized by — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations; it was seen as — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and publi — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food a — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity