Krondor: Tear of the Gods (The Riftwar Legacy, #3)

by Raymond E. Feist

“You should count yourself lucky to be so well loved.” Kendaric said, “Luckier than you know. I shudder to remember the bastard I was before I met Morraine. Her kindness saved my life, but her love saved my soul.”

She’s right, you know. There are forces in the universe whose only aim is to bring misery and darkness upon us all.”

And evil is most adept at seeing what it wants to see. That’s its weakness. It doesn’t anticipate the possibility of failure.