I had a lot of mixed emotions -- anger and bitterness (and) a lot of questions that were not answered.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.