They had been married for thirty-two years. Did he really know so little about her? - P. D. James

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.

Unless the young can use language effectively, both to express their own minds and to understand the minds of others, it is difficult to see how we can have a vigorous democracy in which ideas and policies can be intelligently presented, considered and criticised or achieve that understanding with other countries which nations enjoy through access to each other's language and literature.

If that was what she wanted to believe, why not let her?