"If she was more emotionally stunted, she could feel that her life was wholly owned by her, she would have come to the idea of ending this life. But she never felt and could not feel her life as something that belonged only to her, and therefore even now, when the one to whom she and her life most belonged and whom she loved more than her life died, she still did not think about it, because something that remained of her life, all the same, did not belong to her alone, but belonged to both her grandfather, and uncle Kyazim, and old Hasan, and all those close to her."
Fazil Iskander. From the story "Sofichka"