Sara Quin

“And I never wanted Tegan to not get what I was gonna get. It’s something that goes very, very much back to a very deep childhood place. She was the most important person to me, and probably at some point developmentally, I couldn’t even detach she was something separate from me.”

“And the more I started to think of our relationship as a success and less as a dysfunctional fuck-fest, I was basically like. “Yeah, sometimes I do want to punch Tegan, but 99.9 times out of 100, I don’t.”

“I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.”

“Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.”

“I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.”

“I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.”

“I’ve been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.”

“I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.”

“It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.”

“This is me before I come undone. This is me before I fall apart. I've been tired for days and days. I've been tired for days and days.”

“I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.”

“I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.”

“I thought you would never find another love again. Oh, but you haven't missed a thing, no you haven't missed a thing.”

“All I need is time, time to love you. All I need is time, time to love you, time to love you.”

“I would go to jail with only boys. Just to prove I was as tough as you. And when I get out for good behavior, I'll be writing love songs. Silly banging knee songs.”

“We're queer, but music doesn't have a sexuality. Even if it was more clearly written to women, I still think that music is still just music.”

“I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?”

“This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myself you let me go.”

“I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?”

“This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you’re so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape’s holding!”

“Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.”

“I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.”

“So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.”

“The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.”

“Oh, let's tell the world we're unheard. We're unsure.We're unstop, we're unstoppable. Oh let's tell the girls to be strong. To be sure. To be heard. We want to be heard.”

“An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.”

“Take a second look, you might find that I am stronger. Take a second look, you might find that you are stronger. Imagination, inspiration. It's only fair that I tell you, I plan on leaving here tonight with my pride. I'm proud to be I'm proud to be me.”

“Fine, tell them who you think you are. Fine, tell them fine is what you are. And when you finally figure out what it is you need, you better think of me.”

“Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.”

“Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.”

“They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all.”

“Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem.”

“What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know.”

“In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere.”

“Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.”

“Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen”

“I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.”

“Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me, you would take me anywhere.”

“You say you don't see any part of me. To love in all this mess and I know. You take the good and all the bad that comes with me.”

“I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most.”

“I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.”

“No matter which way you go . No matter which way you stay. You're out of my mind, out of my mind.”

“I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.”

“On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.”

“Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.”

“I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.”

“Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might do something I'd be proud of someday. Mark my words, I might be something someday.”

“All you need to say to me All you need to say to me Is call (call) And I'll be curled on the floor Hiding out from it all And I won't take any other call”

“A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you.”

“I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.”