welcome to island of misfit toys

“Nostalgia - it’s delicate, but potent… in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s a carousel that lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.”

“It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.”

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”