"You're not to blame for her bad choices or her stupidity."

On a good day, Buffy might have been a mite more sympathetic. But yesterday morning, in an empty Vaskothan house, she had resigned herself to sit and wait for the bomb to drop. Now -- with her Sparrow alive (if ill-used) in her arms -- she felt embarrassed over her own lapse in judgement. Ashamed. And to absolve Jack's shooter of her suicide would have absolved Buffy of her own surrender.

And Buffy couldn't forgive herself, even if Jack could forgive the girl.