[He doesn't want to fight. But he can't help being irritable about things at times, because it's easier to be irritable than it is to be sad, or guilty, when you're trying so very hard not to be.]

You suppose? Damn it, Adam, I hate when you do this kind of thing. I kept thinking, I don't know, that you would just corner me one day and get in my face about it. All of it. But if it's not immediately hacking you off it's not worth confronting me about, is it? So now we're going to have it out, face-to-face.