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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 polyurethane bags.

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

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

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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 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.

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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

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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 turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?

Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo

Born: August 12, 1964 (age 62)

Bio: Katherine "Kate" J. Boo is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the MacArthur "genius" award, and the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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