8 Quotes by Jonny Sun

I suppose sometimes the things in the room don't need to be different for a place to feel unfamiliar. Sometimes you are the thing that has changed.

So this nostalgia is, what, an echo of a happiness? Or a long-delayed one? Is it an outline of one, from trying to remember a happiness I knew I should have felt in the moment but that most likely wasn't really there? Or, maybe nostalgia is to feel happiness about something that is over because it is over. That in order to feel happy about it, it must be something that you can't go back to and affect, that you can't mess up from where you are now, but also, that you can't really feel at all.

You have your entire life to worry about the rest of your life. Just get through today. Don't tell yourself "don't worry," but just... worry smaller.

I think a lot of pressure gets put on making things “for something” or “for some reason” and the pressure of “but why?” and “but who’s this for?” and “is it good enough?” and “it’s a waste of time and energy!” and “why don’t you do something productive instead?” and I think that all of this removes the importance and value of making things for the ones who are making it, because maybe the ones who are making the thing are the ones who might need it the most.

I think perhaps what's so difficult about trying to witness our own changes is that we are not above the water. We are each just moving up and down in place, trying to stay afloat.

Home, then, I suppose, is simply in the ways you take a strange space and make it familiar. Sometimes that means putting your stuff in it. Sometimes that just means putting yourself in it and giving it time

See you later cannot be promised, but Goodbye, again reminds us that we've done this before. And after the last time, at least, we both came back.

Airports make everyone feel like passer-through, like a visitor, like an outsider, and this is comforting in its honesty because aren't we always, always just visitors, just passer-through?