Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Some things are hard to let go of.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

When I was a kid, I had a rag doll named Lucy, whom I took everywhere with me. I lost her when I was 12.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

Singapore has always held a special place in my heart.

My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.

You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.