Memories of Light - Day Twenty Four

The release of A Memory of Light, the final volume of Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series, is now only days away. To celebrate this tremendous moment, decades in the making, we will be releasing daily previews of the final volume. Sentences, words, paragraphs, chapter titles...memories, if you will, of light.

Today's Memory of Light is: 

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"There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention, and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever been made."

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 All will be revealed when A Memory of Light goes on sale on January 8th, but until then, join the ongoing discussion of each new piece of the puzzle on the Memories of Light spoiler thread.