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> [“It's impossible to find happiness if you're an orphan." "That's not true. Orphans are the only ones who are free to find their own happiness; they don't have their own history so they create it for themselves." "But, Z, that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/it-s-impossible-to-find-happiness-if-you-re-an-orphan-that-s-not-true/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

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## More by Tash Aw

> [“...my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/my-mother-took-a-younger-man-as-a-lover-they-spent-all-day-in-her/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“Time — how it expands to fill the spaces you create; how it makes meagre experiences seem never-ending. Whenever he heard people talk about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/time-how-it-expands-to-fill-the-spaces-you-create-how-it-makes-meagre/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“...a small piece of silk. It was at once iridescent and delicate, and shone with a colour no Occidental could ever have conceived…I held…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/a-small-piece-of-silk-it-was-at-once-iridescent-and-delicate-and/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/man-is-a-restless-creature-nomadic-at-heart/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/outlines-of-dead-logs-i-hauled-away-remained-impressed-on-the-damp/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“...my limbs became leaden, my head light as yarn on a weaver's spindle. My vision dazzled with the colours of richly shot silk; above…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/my-limbs-became-leaden-my-head-light-as-yarn-on-a-weaver-s-spindle-my/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“It's impossible to find happiness if you're an orphan." "That's not true. Orphans are the only ones who are free to find their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/it-s-impossible-to-find-happiness-if-you-re-an-orphan-that-s-not-true/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/once-in-a-while-perhaps-every-10-years-or-even-every-generation-a/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“...he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/he-returned-to-his-barricaded-silence-locking-me-out-of-his-world-the/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

> [“Although harmony with nature is of considerable importance in planning a garden, it must never be allowed to obscure what lies at the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tash-aw/although-harmony-with-nature-is-of-considerable-importance-in/)

[Tash Aw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tash-aw/)

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