4
" Oberon asked. No, Oberon, I told him via our mental link. You’re only the second companion I’ve done that with. Some people—and some creatures—don’t handle long lives very well. It changes them for the worse. But you just keep getting better, buddy. I briefly glanced at the slobbery hunk of beef underneath Oberon’s paw. No thanks; I’m full. I’ll tell you some other night, okay? It’s a story in itself. "
― Kevin Hearne , Besieged (The Iron Druid Chronicles #4.1-4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 8.1-8.2, 8.5-8.6, 8.9)
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" Shared knowledge can weigh heavy in the scales of power,” he replied, and I have seen the truth of it since. “Controlling what you want shared is always the issue, and writing down nothing is the most extreme method of control. But while this preserves our secrets, it also limits our ability to spread our wisdom, does it not? "
― Kevin Hearne , Besieged (The Iron Druid Chronicles #4.1-4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 8.1-8.2, 8.5-8.6, 8.9)
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" I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that we are social creatures, we are too often shoved into solitary confinement by circumstance. The color of our skin isn’t like everyone else’s, or our language is different, or our religion isn’t the one that gets us invited to dinner by the neighbors. That last one has kept me alone for a long, long time. "
― Kevin Hearne , Besieged (The Iron Druid Chronicles #4.1-4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 8.1-8.2, 8.5-8.6, 8.9)
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" It comes down to the fact that he serves a different value system than any human one. I pointed out that Gaia was interested in protecting the vitality and variety of life on the whole planet. Broadly speaking that’s difficult to argue, because unless you’re falling prey to this predator or that, that basic value is pure and good and beneficial to all concerned, if ye take the long and wide view. But humans, I taught him, rarely take that view. Human laws think of protecting humans first. Though if ye look closely at most human laws, they tend to benefit a narrow few over the good of all humans. I’m sure ye can think of a law or three that protects someone’s personal profit rather than what’s good for everyone. "
― Kevin Hearne , Besieged (The Iron Druid Chronicles #4.1-4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 8.1-8.2, 8.5-8.6, 8.9)
