Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Jackson Pearce
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Books did not make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books. The above quote is a bit misleading. It is not the case that the darkness of my life made me wallow in books, it is rather that I chose to wallow in books. In other words, I chose to be unhappy and to wallow in a state of unhappiness.

This is a pattern that many people fall into every day. We choose to live a sad and unhappy life and we make these choices without realizing it. We don't realize how much we are allowing ourselves to be led by our feelings and emotions instead of taking action and making changes in our lives for the better.

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