How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter. (15.5)
Or does it? Gabriel might like to tell himself this philosophical truth, but we're not sure his life actually corroborates it in any capacity. After all, on the inside of him is Finnigan and his evil plan to seek revenge wherever he goes. Is that what really matters?
Quote #5
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go of my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go. (17.42)
Here, Gabriel pleads with a god—that is, if he believes in one—to let him stay on the earth and keep living. You might think he's gone soft, but actually, he just wants to see Evangeline one last time; he doesn't seem to want to keep living beyond that, though.
Quote #6
I've been fearing the grave, its loneliness—yet I'm alone now. I have waited years for her to come here, but she's never arrived. I've been worried I'll lie forever unvisited, yet that's already the way things are. (19.3)
Poor Gabriel. Even though he makes his bed—literally—when it comes to his death, it's sad to see him lie in it all by his lonesome. He wishes he had company, yet he realizes that he's just as alone on this side of the grave as he is in the ground.