Codex Quotes

“Who defined me? My culture, a culture of mercy, a living codex. I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her map and her self. I am everyone in the story; I am the story.”
― Alice Notley, Culture of One

“Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.”
― Lev Grossman

“It is impossible for a man to think of something without matching his abstract idea with physical object.”
― Joey Lawsin, Originemology

“The cheater clearly used foreign materials not once but twice,” Amber yells. “It’s not to be tolerated! We live by the rules or we die by them!”

No wonder she and Dain are so close—they’re both in love with the Codex.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing (Part 1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]