"...If someone hurts you, you have a right to be angry. If someone threatens something you care about, you have a right to be angry. But sometimes people get angry--because someone wasn't deferential enough, didn't put the angry person's wants and priorities above their own, acted like people instead of accessories. That's part of what I meant about Wrath and Pride not mixing well. And people don't have a right to that kind of anger."
"...I think they don't have a right to do that anger," says Mehitabel. "But I don't think I like saying that they don't have a right to feel it."
"Like I said...nothing feels unpleasant on that sensory level. If I observe someone having that kind of anger enough to dislike it, it's because they chose to exercise it."
"Really? It feels stronger if they do stuff about it?"
And then Mehitabel plops herself on the floor and thinks about all of the things that are wrong with the world and all the things that are making it worse and works up a good mad.
And then, quick as she can, she lets it go.
"I just wanted to make sure I was really doing it and didn't just think I was," she explains.
"...I think a lot of humans can't do it? But I wanted to be able to so I started trying and I wanted to be sure I wasn't fooling myself."
"Oh. Well, I know a lot of them can't, but most people don't go around consumed by rage..."
"If you couldn't stop being angry when you wanted to how would you ever think of anything else?"
"You'd have to wait until the angry went away by itself or you'd have to sleep or have a good cry or something."
"Edie, I love you," the pride demon says, approaching the conversation, "but even on top of being a wrath demon you are a terrific malcontent. Most people don't get as angry as often as you do."
"The kind you get after a major breakthrough you'd been working towards for a while."