The insane were informed by Pearce that Christ was in them "as surely as if he were the very blood that moves in a circle out from your heart and to it again." Pearce, p. 214

Merivel after his first sexual encounter with Katherine: "...she [Katherine] began to whisper to me that at last we were together in God's house. And though God may never forgive me for this, I confess I was excited by this blasphemy, and I did with Katherine in the space of an hour, I did whatever she ask of me and more that my own mind could devise. And this was no simple act of Oblivion, but a love of the most profane kind." p. 271

"And so au revoir, Merivel. I shall not say adieu for who knows whether, at some time in the future, History may not have another role for you." King...