I first read these books in high school + there’s something about coming back to a series half a lifetime later. they are familiar + known, I’m not surprised as the story unfolds. yet I know I’m different, now, for all the books + life+ love + loss that’s come since I was 15.
“I fight for you,” Moiraine said before Egwene could open her mouth, “as does Egwene.” A look flashed between the two women. “People fight for you who do not know it, any more than you know them. You do not realize what it means that you force the form of the Age Lace, do you? The ripples of your actions, the ripples of your very existence, spread across the Pattern to change the weave of life-threads of which you will never be aware. The battle is far from yours alone. Yet you stand in the heart of this web in the Pattern. Should you fail, and fall, all fails and falls.”
perhaps the greater 