How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"I know why you're dying, Gabriel." He looks at me with shards of curiosity. "You'd rather die than live with everything that's happened. The hatchet. The humiliation." (20.11)
It doesn't take Finnigan long to figure things out. He knows Gabriel better than anyone else, and he gets that his buddy doesn't want people to alienate him anymore. He's already a social outcast, so things are only bound to get worse once everyone finds out he murdered his parents in cold blood.
Quote #8
"But the thing is—you guessed wrong, Finnigan. I'm not dying from shame or for sympathy or to forget what I've done. None of that matters to me. I'm dying to kill you." (20.29)
Try again, Finnigan. Gabriel relishes the moment of telling Finnigan that he doesn't care much about popular opinion or gossip about him—instead, he's only killing himself to get rid of his evil alter ego. It's a pretty morbid way of looking at things, even for him.
Quote #9
I thought it would be difficult, even impossible, to will oneself to die; I've discovered that it's not. The body is a faithful servant: it knows when it's not wanted. There's nothing wrong with me—nothing found in a textbook, anyway. My illness comes from the time of chivalry and towers, of armor and sunken swords. It's a close relation to the fatally broken heart. Life is a skittish sprite—but it can be caught and tied down. It can be muzzled and deprived until its light begins to fade. (21.1)
When it comes down to it, death comes rather easily to Gabriel. This isn't necessarily because he's coldhearted or detached from society (although we don't doubt those play a part), though, and here he explains that it has to do with the fact that he's determined to die, so his body just goes along with the plan. It's as simple as that.