" And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she must
die. But you and l—we must have our own beliefs
to live and die in "

― Pearl S. Buck , A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)