88 Tegan And Sara Quotes

Tegan and Sara have captivated fans worldwide with their emotive lyrics and authentic songwriting. As identical twins and indie pop icons, they've crafted a distinctive voice in music, resonating with countless listeners. For those who have found solace, joy, and inspiration in their words, we've curated a collection of the top 88 Tegan and Sara quotes. Whether you're a longtime admirer or a newcomer to their artistry, these quotes offer a glimpse into the profound emotional landscape the duo so beautifully navigates. Join us for a journey through some of their most poignant and memorable lines.

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

3. “The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead” - 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. “Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while.” - Sara Quin

8. “Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you. Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you.” - Sara Quin

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

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

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

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

15. “5 days left” - Tegan Quin

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

17. “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

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

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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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

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. “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

27. “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

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

29. “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

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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “It's love that leaves and breaks the seal of always thinking you would be real, happy and healthy, strong and calm, where does the good go?” - Tegan Quin

37. “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

38. “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

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

40. “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

41. “I realized I’d learned something about myself. I was like ‘oh man, I’ve let this go’ now I’m starting to talk about it like it’s over and it hadn’t even begun.” - Tegan Quin

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

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

44. “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

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

46. “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

47. “So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.” - Tegan Quin

48. “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

49. “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

50. “Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.” - Tegan Quin

51. “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

52. “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

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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

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

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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?” - Sara Quin

66. “You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?” - Tegan Quin

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

68. “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

69. “I'm quite sure we'll find one another, in a place better than this, a time filled with us.” - Tegan Quin

70. “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

71. “I cried so hard that you pushed me further away. I screamed so loud you called the police on me. I got so city girl on you.” - Tegan Quin

72. “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

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

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

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

76. “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.” - Sara Quin

77. “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

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

79. “I'm infamous for being infamous. I don’t think you’re so famous miss. I miss everything, When you’re away from me.” - Tegan Quin

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

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

82. “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

83. “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

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

85. “I love Sara’s music and there’s no one else i’d rather share a face with and I try to remember that I actually enjoy being around her.” - Tegan Quin

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

87. “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

88. “Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.” - Emy Storey