“It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking con
“It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking consideration the fact that other people and other elements, not contained within herself, would also have to aid in their molding. She had lived to herself for so long, had been shut out from the stream of things in which she was interested for such a long time during the formative years of her life, that she considered her own imaginative powers omniscient. Thus she constructed a future world of love on one isolated experience, never thinking for the moment that the other party concerned might not be of the same mind.”From The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman -- source link
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