Ms. Bauer

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever