story: Sail
author: Tash Aw
year: 2011
where: taxi, Al Falah Street
note: long short story, set in Hong Kong by my favorite Malaysian writer
a line: “She knew it sounded stupid but she loved the feeling of being between places, of being nowhere. It made her feel she could go anywhere; anytime she wanted, on her own. She would never be pinned down; she would always be her own woman, never dependent on anyone.”
samantha Neugebauer 
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