Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)

by Steven Erikson

‘You live soft, Udinaas, in a very hard world.’ ‘I told you I was not without anger.’ ‘Which you bleed away, somehow, before it can hurt anyone else.’ ‘So I do all the bleeding, do I?’ She nodded. ‘I’m afraid you do, Udinaas.’