103 Sara Quin Quotes

Sara Quin, one half of the iconic musical duo Tegan and Sara, is renowned not only for her exceptional songwriting and musical talent but also for her insightful and relatable quotes. Whether delving into themes of love, identity, or the intricacies of life, her words have consistently resonated with fans around the world. In this blog post, we’ve curated a collection of the top 103 Sara Quin quotes, celebrating her unique voice and perspective. Get ready to be inspired, moved, and perhaps even transformed by Sara's profound insights and reflections.

1. “All I want to get is a little bit closerAll I want to know is, can you come a little closer?Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closerHere comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer” - Tegan Quin

2. “It’s not just all physicalI’m the type who will get oh so critical” - Tegan Quin

3. “So let’s make things physical,I won’t treat you like you’re oh so typical” - Tegan Quin

4. “Stay, you'll leave me in the morning anyway. My heart, you'll cut it out you never liked me anyway.” - Sara Quin

5. “Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?” - Sara Quin

6. “Now I'm all messed up, sick inside wondering where you're leaving your makeup.” - Sara Quin

7. “Why do I take this lonely road, nobody here to walk with me? So I start fresh all over again why won't you just comfort me?” - Sara Quin

8. “I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line.Hanging on to parts of me, hanging on at all. I was used to seeing no future in my sight line.” - Sara Quin

9. “Sometimes it feels what I recovered you lost, sending your peaceful loss to me.” - Sara Quin

10. “I was a fool for love, I was a fool.” - Tegan Quin

11. “Hey hey hey, you had your time. Ding! my turn.” - Tegan Quin

12. “I feel like I wouldn't like me if I met me and I feel like you wouldn't like me if you met me.” - Tegan Quin

13. “The muscles fought so longTo control against the pull ofOne magnet to another magnet” - Sara Quin

14. “I look into the mirror for evil that just does not exist.” - Sara Quin

15. “Yes I give you everythingYes I give you anythingI gave you everything.” - Tegan Quin

16. “this is the last honest look I'll ever give.” - Tegan Quin

17. “No I'm going to hold you anyway And I'll do it without shakingYes I'll love you always And I'll do it without achingYes I'd give you anythingYes I'd give you anythingI gave you everything” - Tegan Quin

18. “One time in your lifeYou've got the route in hand But the map is stuckThey said it's not your fault The tires are tired the camera movesAnd your driver's been pulled” - Tegan Quin

19. “I've got nowhere to go, I've got nowhere to go.” - Sara Quin

20. “When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I.” - Tegan Quin

21. “I listened inYes I'm guilty of thisYou should know this” - Tegan Quin

22. “I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe.” - Tegan Quin

23. “I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right.” - Tegan Quin

24. “Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at.” - Tegan Quin

25. “I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart.” - Tegan Quin

26. “There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do.” - Tegan Quin

27. “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.” - Sara Quin

28. “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” - Sara Quin

29. “So what, I lied, I lied to me too. So what, I lied, I lied to me too. Hold out for the ones you know will love you. Hide out from the ones you know will love you. You, you too.Dark you can't come soon enough for me.” - Tegan Quin

30. “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.” - Sara Quin

31. “All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.” - Tegan Quin

32. “Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.” - Tegan Quin

33. “Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.” - Sara Quin

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

35. “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.” - Sara Quin

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

37. “I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.” - Sara Quin

38. “I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most.” - Sara Quin

39. “How can they ask why I feel so angry? Do you see my problem if I never explain it?But then there's you asking me how long. Say something, it's taken me so long.” - Tegan Quin

40. “I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me” - Tegan Quin

41. “We're strangers, we're not friends. I hate this, and I hate them.And I found out that you're angry, and you're sorry you ever met me” - Tegan Quin

42. “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.” - Sara Quin

43. “Where do you go with your broken heart in tow? What do you do with the left over you? And how do you know, when to let go? Where does the good go, where does the good go?” - Tegan Quin

44. “Don't bend, don't bleed, don't beg, don't scream, don't whine, don't fight, don't tell me. Don't tell me, don't tell me. Don't feel, don't tear, don't kiss, don't care, don't touch, don't want me. Don't want me, don't want me. Something's so sick about this, my misery's so addictive. I'm halfway there watching Northshore from the floor singing to you over my shoulder.” - Tegan Quin

45. “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.” - Sara Quin

46. “Audience member: Living Room!Sara: Kitchen” - Sara Quin

47. “I am disappointed every morning that I wake up. And I am disappointed by the feeling Of waking up next to you.” - Tegan and Sara

48. “Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist. Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.” - Tegan and Sara

49. “Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.” - Sara Quin

50. “In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere.” - Sara Quin

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

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

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

54. “Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.” - Tegan Quin

55. “You've got your lights turned so they can see you. The very best of what you've got to offer.” - Tegan Quin

56. “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.” - Sara Quin

57. “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.” - Sara Quin

58. “I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.” - Tegan Quin

59. “I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.” - Tegan Quin

60. “Hardly happy at all, and I'm ready to take the fall. We pay for the stupid things we've done where I come from. Can you sit through this? Or is it gonna be too deep?” - Tegan Quin

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

62. “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.” - Sara Quin

63. “The night still confuses me, we'd all get tired and have to sleep eventually. Regardless of the sun's demands. Regardless if it made much sense.” - Tegan Quin

64. “He sat me down. He said he was incomplete. He thinks true love's gonna get him back on his feet. He said you only find love once in your life. So I guess when you find it you're gonna hold it right? You'll hold it right?” - Tegan Quin

65. “So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color you've all exposed, now I gotta get up here and prove the importance of my clothes of my pose. I suppose, again.” - Tegan Quin

66. “My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go.” - Tegan Quin

67. “Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again.” - Tegan Quin

68. “Take my heart while you're at it why don't you sign me up to sell me out.” - Tegan Quin

69. “Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment.” - Tegan Quin

70. “Promise me you'll never go away.Promise me you'll always stay.” - Tegan Quin

71. “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.” - Sara Quin

72. “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.” - Sara Quin

73. “When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn’t what you were looking for.” - Tegan Quin

74. “They didn’t fly out of my body, I actually had to push the little fuckers out.” - Sonia Clement on Tegan and Sara

75. “I want to show girls you don't have to get married and have kids and give up you dreams. You can conquer the world. YOu can play in front of a crowd of 20,000 people, and you can own that shit.” - Tegan Quin

76. “The time you've got me running. The time, you've got me tired. Well I've got more for the world than this.And I've got love that I need to give.” - Tegan Quin

77. “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.” - Sara Quin

78. “I always say that anybody who’s single ― like Sara ― their love is the most intense love. The heartbreak they’re enduring is the most intense heartbreak. We cannot understand what Sara’s going through. When it’s love, it’s my love, you can’t understand it. You can’t compare. But I really related to where Sara was on this record. When she was writing these songs and coming to me like: You don’t understand, I was like: You’re right, but I also do.” - Tegan Quin

79. “If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.” - Tegan Quin

80. “When we were doing interviews for our bio, I described hearing that song for the first time to be like Sara was standing on my chest. I just felt really sad, and that was having heard all the other songs in order leading up to that one. I know that when Sara was writing these songs it was during the end of her relationship and it was someone she’d been friends with for almost ten years and been with for four years. It was just the psyche of it, when you’ve known someone for half your life, literally, and then have to leave them, and not necessarily because you want to but just because it’s the right thing to do, and it’s just not healthy and you’re not good anymore, there’s no growth and you have to have growth. And when I hear that song, the idea of that all happening just makes me sick to my stomach a little bit. But it’s in an enjoyable way.” - Tegan Quin

81. “I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.” - Tegan Quin

82. “All I need is time, time to love you. All I need is time, time to love you, time to love you.” - Sara Quin

83. “Creep up and tell me that you, you love me more each time you, look into my eyes.” - Tegan and Sara

84. “Don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better till you get worse, yeah you send a little smile my way. And don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better til you get worse, yeah you send a little love my way.” - Tegan Quin

85. “Every second I spend waiting,Drags me closer to this grave.I'm not alone.No, I'm just on my own.” - Tegan Quin

86. “Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up.” - Tegan Quin

87. “Make a map of what you see,Direct pain effectively.” - Tegan Quin

88. “I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.” - Sara Quin

89. “I’m the type of girl, When you fall in love,You fall forever.” - Tegan Quin

90. “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.” - Sara Quin

91. “I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones.” - Tegan and Sara

92. “Prison is not a joke.” - Emy Storey

93. “If you’ve got it to give, You’ve got to give it all. If you’ve got it to give, You've got to give it all. Oh give it all to me.” - Tegan Quin

94. “I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.” - Tegan Quin

95. “I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now.” - Tegan Quin

96. “I don't need company in the company of you. And I don't need love, 'Cause your love will do. And I've got you. And you've got me. And that's all we need.” - Tegan Quin

97. “Hello? It's where I've been so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Hello? It's you and me so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.” - Tegan Quin

98. “I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.” - Tegan Quin

99. “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.” - Sara Quin

100. “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.” - Sara Quin

101. “All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.” - Tegan Quin

102. “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.” - Sara Quin

103. “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.” - Sara Quin