89 Tegan Quin Quotes

If you're a fan of Tegan Quin, one-half of the iconic indie duo Tegan and Sara, you know that her words often carry as much weight as her music. With a knack for capturing the complexities of life, love, and self-discovery, Tegan's quotes resonate deeply with fans around the world. In this post, we’ve curated a collection of 89 of Tegan Quin's most impactful quotes. Whether you're seeking inspiration, comfort, or a bit of wisdom, these quotes are sure to strike a chord. Dive in and explore the wit, honesty, and emotion that define Tegan Quin's voice.

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. “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

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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

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

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

9. “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

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

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

12. “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

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

16. “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

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

18. “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

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

20. “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

21. “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

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

23. “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

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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

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

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

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

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

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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “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

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 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

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

42. “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

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

44. “What I don't know don't keep me hostage. It's your love that locks me up and I want you to know that I love the way you make my heart tear up.” - Tegan Quin

45. “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

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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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

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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

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. “Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again.” - 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. “Promise me you'll never go away.Promise me you'll always stay.” - Tegan Quin

61. “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

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

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

64. “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

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

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

67. “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.” - Sara Quin

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

69. “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

70. “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

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

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

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

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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

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

80. “Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I'm all alone. I'm still missing you, missing you, missing 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 hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.” - Sara Quin

83. “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

84. “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

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. “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

87. “No matter whether you’re a gay or a mixed race couple; when you’re drawn together, ultimately it doesn’t matter what everybody thinks because it’s so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?” - Tegan Quin

88. “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

89. “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