Quotes by : Katherine Boo

In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations;....

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust....

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust....

Food wasn’t one of the amenities at Cooper, the five-hundred-bed hospital on which millions of poor....

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was....

Water and ice made of the same thing. He thought most people were made of the same thing, too...If he....

But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned....

One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength—that....

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity....

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