[Although they hadn't actually killed his father, Zuko had been anticipating it for so long that having him locked away, and pretending that he was dead, made it feel like they had killed him. Again, he had a sense of how terrible it felt to know you had to destroy your own family. He barely heard what Azula said.]

...You can't escape what you have to do. [His hands have curled into fists by his side, white-knuckled, without him noticing.] But you can still feel what you feel about it. It doesn't make you weak, and it won't stop you. [He'd come to believe that strongly.]