Just Forgive

p. 264
"I heard the better tone in my voice, and it came to me how I could lock that tone into my voice forever. From now on. every time I thought of my mother I could, so easy, slep off into a cold place where meaness took over."
Lily is so bitter in this moment while she is talking to Rosaleen. Instead of trying to figure out why her mother was so sad, sad enough to leave a daughter that she loved for three months, she just went straight to being bitter. I find myself in this place sometimes. When am so wrapped up in my thoughts I don't stop to find out the other side of the story. Does anyone else get this way time to time? Do you think it is selfish of someone to feel this way? Or is it just another human trait?
-Hannah V-C