"Before I am your daughter, your sister, your aunt, niece, or cousin, I am my own person, and I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm."(с)
“Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But its you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.”