For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
J. R. R. TolkienMy own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
J. R. R. Tolkien