
“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”
Variant: If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?
“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”
“I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.”
The Light of Asia (1879)
“I lost nothing I regret losing," Witch said softly. "I am what I want to be.”
Source: Dreams Made Flesh
“I am what I am because of who we all are.”
Dancing Nancies
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)