108 Tegan Quin Quotes

Tegan Quin, one-half of the renowned musical duo Tegan and Sara, has been captivating audiences for years with her poignant lyrics and honest reflections. Her words carry weight not only in her songs but also in her interviews, public appearances, and social media musings. With a unique ability to connect and resonate, Tegan's quotes often offer insight into love, life, and the human experience. In this post, we’ve compiled a curated collection of the top 108 Tegan Quin quotes that encapsulate her wisdom, wit, and profound understanding of the world. Dive in and discover the thoughts of one of today's most inspiring voices.

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

2. “The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead” - Tegan Quin

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

4. “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

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

6. “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

7. “I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.” - Sara Quin

8. “Feeling like I am now lighting up the hall. I was used to standing in the shadow of a damaged heart.” - Sara Quin

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

10. “Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.” - Sara Quin

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

12. “You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I can see you, so don't cheat me here. Close those eyes of yours. Put 'em, real tight. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. The first person that dumped you. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. I want you to sing. I want to heal that with you right now. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive.Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.” - Tegan Quin Live @ Cain's Ballroom 9 11 10

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

14. “Come together. Twins Forever.” - Tegan Quin

15. “Lets be twins forever.” - Tegan Quin

16. “5 days left” - Tegan Quin

17. “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

18. “I'm a frosted lemon coward” - Tegan Quin

19. “I don't know howNo don't know to hold you Without shakingNo I'm not aware of how I could possibly love you Without aching” - Tegan Quin

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

21. “I saved up all my sunshine Just to see you more clearI'm a little short on solar And I haven't given in” - Tegan Quin

22. “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

23. “I have always felt thisAnd I, I could never hear itSo I turned it up And turned it onAnd turned it downAlways the volume always the words” - Sara Quin

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

25. “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

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

27. “Calm down, I'm calling you to say I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. Calm down, I'm calling back to say I'm home now I,m coming around, coming around nobody likes to but I really like to cry nobody likes me maybe if I cry.” - Tegan Quin

28. “Begging ocean please, help me drown these memories. All I need to hear is that you're not mine,you're not mine.” - Tegan Quin

29. “I felt you in my legsBefore I even met you” - Tegan Quin

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

31. “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

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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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.” - Sara Quin

36. “Don't run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay.” - Tegan Quin

37. “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

38. “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

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

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

41. “I want the ocean right now. I want the ocean right now. I get so jealous that I can't even work.” - Tegan Quin

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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.” - Sara Quin

46. “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

47. “Look me in the eye and tell me you don't find me attractive. Look me in the heart and tell me you won't go. Look me in the eye and promise no love's like our love. Look me in the heart and unbreak broken, it won't happen.” - Tegan Quin

48. “You wait up for me I don't wake up for you. Would you like the company or are you sick of me. When your love lets you go you only want love more. Even when love wasn't what you were looking forSpeak slow, tell me love where do we go.” - Tegan Quin

49. “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

50. “I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness in your voice, I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness inside you.” - Tegan and Sara

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

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

53. “I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be.” - Tegan Quin

54. “There's something so divided, Don't worry about me I'll be fine, Don't live your life for me or for anyone. Live your life as if you're one.” - Tegan Quin

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

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

57. “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

58. “All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired.” - Tegan Quin

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

60. “You've got the freedom to walk out if you drag you down. You've got the freedom to walk out, If they drag you down. If they drag you, If they drag you. Walk out.” - Tegan Quin

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “Yes I'll come get you, and I will bring you home. I'll come get you, and I will bring you home.I'll come get you, and I'll say: Welcome home.” - Tegan Quin

69. “Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.” - Tegan Quin

70. “Hard core superstar by far you're the ultimate star. Do you wanna be a superstar? Well that's what you are. You're gonna be a star. Do you wanna be a superstar?” - Tegan Quin

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

72. “I saw my first angel.And it was you.” - Tegan Quin

73. “Most women look at magazines and then they just feel bad about themselves but Sara looks at magazines and she’s all like I can get with her.” - Tegan Quin

74. “Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying.” - Tegan Quin

75. “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

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

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

78. “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

79. “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!” - Sara Quin

80. “What I love about being queer is... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend.” - Tegan Quin

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

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

83. “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

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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “I work so much, I miss the sun shine away. I sleep so little, Watch the stars fade into day.” - Tegan Quin

88. “I got uncertain from this, I'll be perfect from now on. But all my promises, they're out the window once you're gone. You pack your bags. You say I love you but I cannot stay.” - Tegan Quin

89. “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.” - Sara Quin

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

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

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

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

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

95. “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

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

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

98. “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

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

100. “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

101. “Okay you found me out. Beyond without a doubt, your lie is safe with me. A friend, i'm sure you are. And on this day so far, I've fallen hundred see?” - Tegan Quin

102. “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

103. “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

104. “We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it’s crazy! But then we were like, if they want to get married.. that’s cool. That’s gonna destroy their relationships, but.. Heterosexuals deserve the same rights as homosexuals.” - Tegan Quin

105. “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

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

107. “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.” - Sara Quin

108. “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