How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
[Now] he knew who had been killed at Donnafugata, at a hundred other places, in the course of that night of dirty wind: a newborn babe: good faith: just the very child who should have been cared for most. (3.36)
When he realizes that the vote to join Italy has been rigged, Fabrizio decides that it's more than just his country that's died. Everyone knows that Sicily would have voted to join Italy either way, but the fact that the government rigged the vote shows that they have no trust and no respect for the people of Sicily. Say goodbye to good faith and friendship moving forward.
Quote #8
"[Our] sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering for death; our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a hankering for voluptuous immobility, that is for death again." (4.88)
For Fabrizio, all Sicilians secretly long for death, which you can see it in the way that they eat whatever they want and indulge in every sensual pleasure they can imagine. Pleasing your body is a way of turning off your brain for a while, and there's nothing that turns your brain off better than death.
Quote #9
[It] was to the rise of this man and a hundred others like him, to their obscure intrigues and their tenacious greed and avarice, that was due the sense of death which was now, obviously, hanging darkly over these places. (6.33)
Fabrizio actually gets along with Don Calogero pretty well, but he also thinks that this man is greedy and conniving. He's the sort of guy who's going to take power once Fabrizio's class is swept away, and that leaves Fabrizio with a lingering sense of death.