{"author":"Tavi Gevinson","author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["life","trust","motto "],"id":25356,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["experience","end","you "],"id":67801,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"My goofiest-sounding secret is that I also believe in magic. Sometimes I call it God and sometimes I call it light, and I believe in it because every now and then I read a really good book or hear a really good song or have a really good conversation with a friend and they seem to have some kind of shine to them. The list I keep of these moments in the back of my journal is comprised less of times when I was laughing or smiling and more of times when I felt like I could feel the colors in my eyes deepening from the display before me. Times in which I felt I was witnessing an all-encompassing representation of life driven by an understanding that, coincidence or not, our existence is a peculiar thing, and perhaps the greatest way to honor it is to just be human. To be happy AND sad, and everything else. And yeah, living is a pain, and I say I hate everyone and everything, and I don’t exude much enthusiasm when sandwiched between fluorescent lighting and vinyl flooring for seven hours straight, and I will probably mumble a bunch about how much I wish I could sleep forever the next time I have to wake up at 6 AM. But make no mistake about it: I really do like living. I really, truly do.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["life","light","magic"],"id":72260,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["success","time","home "],"id":113966,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["reading","smart","know "],"id":147212,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["art","writing","believe "],"id":147290,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["time","myself","successful "],"id":151893,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["pain","fun","yourself "],"id":152469,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["art","mom","me "],"id":156769,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"},{"text":"I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.","author":"Tavi Gevinson","tags":["positive","writing","gift "],"id":188605,"author_id":"Tavi+Gevinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}