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He felt his mother hadn't prepared him for what it felt like, falling alone. Which

Ghosts of women are the worst. Years go by and they don't leave you be

If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight?

I'm not squeamish.

Because her boils had erupted

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead

To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. As

It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.

Where Old India and New India collide making New India

In the age of globalization - an ad hoc, temp-job, fiercely competitive age - hope is not a fiction.

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

You think your work is dreaming?

Everything around us is roses, and we're the shit in between.

The lyrics, in English, were meaningless to him, the bass line irresistible.

The astonishing thing is that some people are good, and that many others try to be.

When they learned that a family in the slum was making money, they visited every other day to extort some.

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

He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.

Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.

Abdul knew this Gandhi as the one who cared for poor people, who liked Muslims as well as Hindus, who took on the British and made India free.

The effect of corruption I find most underacknowledged is a contraction not of economic possibility but of our moral universe.

A girl could be virtuous without being perfect. Back

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

And now out onto Airport Road and into the city's horn-honk opera.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

That the only Indians who went on trial were

Much of her outrage derived from a belated recognition that she was as human as anyone else.

The better I know you, the more I will dislike you, and the more you will dislike me. So let us keep to ourselves.

Taking his cup, the soldier had stared at her for a long moment and said, 'Don't stand in the sun-- you'll get too dark" (141).

I grew up in a second when my mother died," he told Sunil. "My father and brother didn't understand me.

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

stayed friends because they could keep each other's secrets. Now,

Midnight was closing in, the one-legged woman was grievously burned, and the Mumbai police were coming for Abdul and his father.

An awkward, uneducated boy might still be capable of righteousness: He intended to remember this and every other truth The Master spoke.

Asha believed a person seeking betterment should try as many schemes as possible, since it was hard to predict which one might work.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

In his first weeks back home, scavenging skills rusty, he took the sandals from the feet of his sleeping father and sold them to Abdul for food.

Avoid trouble. This was the operating principle of Abdul Hakim Husain, an idea so fiercely held that it seemed imprinted on his physical form.

Abdul rose with minimal whining, since the only whining his mother tolerated was her own.

Better arguments, maybe even better policies, get formulated when we know more about ordinary lives. While

But as he'd learned in the police station, being damaged was nothing like being dead. One

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

Like most people in the slum, and in the world, for that matter, he believed his own dreams properly aligned to his capacities.