Said by O’Connor at a dinner party of writers when another writer said the the Eucharist was a symbol and a good one.
 56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.  57 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.  58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.  59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.  60 These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.
John 6: 56-60
After this many of His Disciples walked no more with Jesus.
It’s cognitive dissonance that Protestants will interpret some parts of Sacred Scripture so literally, but not the Bread of Life Discourse in John chapter 6. Even sadder is that most Catholics today think of the Eucharist as a mere symbol.