"Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that."

-- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

#Book Quotes #Light Quotes #Rising Up Quotes

“You keep worrying youâ€™re taking up too much space. I wish youâ€™d let yourself be the milky way.”
“Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.”
“You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.”
“My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.”
“Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.”
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.”
“These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.”
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”

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