"'I said that I don't see the future," she said. 'I remember parts of it.'
'What's the difference?'
...'The difference is,' she said, 'that seeing is a form of clarity, remembering is...something else'"
(Chapter 4, pg. 74.)

"Aenea shook her head and sipped her tea. 'You don't see Raul, but they do. Already they've referred to me as a virus. They're right...that's exactly what I could be to the Church. A virus, like the ancient HIV strain on Old Earth or the Red Death that raked through the Outback after the Fall...a virus that invades every cell of the organism and reprograms the DNA in those cells...or at least infects enough cells that the organism breaks down, fails...dies" (Chapter 8, p. 125.)

"'I don't think that I want to make any wager if it means dealing with a Church that has grown so corrupt that...