"Everyone society has to have a God," Gabriel said quietly, attempting not to choke on the words. "It's an effort to rationalize their own existence." Didn't make him believe any less, knowing that intellectually, but it still was an easier explanation to that than trying to explain the more abstract feelings that came with believing that you were not simply a result of a random collision of particles.
"And everyone questions whether they truly love someone or not at least once," Gabriel said gently. "It's a hard thing to pin down, love. More complex than anything else that you could possibly come across. It's like...drowning, flying, and dying all at the same time but being happy that it's happening."
"Perhaps it's less a matter of who the monster is and rather why there isn't any middle ground," Gabriel sighed as he stood from the desk chair and crossed back over to Sam. "What's really so horrible about the other that warrants their extermination?"