Nicey Talbot

“I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.”
― Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939

“care desperately in a perversely curious-about-your-sex-life way,” Merrick said. “You never tell me anything about your personal life. You don’t hit on me. You ignore me when I hit on you. You keep our work relationship professional no matter how hard I try to make it unprofessional. It’s like you have integrity or something, and quite frankly, I’m sick of it.”
― Megan Hart, Captivated

“After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.”
― Isak Dinesen