Robin Hobb. The Saga of the Seer (№ 7885)

- I've always believed, perhaps childishly, that nothing like that can happen to a person who follows the rules. After that, I felt... cheated. Stupid. Gullible. I thought that the ideals can protect me. Honor, courtesy, justice... they are not real, Fitz. We all trust them and trying to hide behind them as a shield. But they guard only from those who have the same shields. Against those who rejected them, they are powerless.