Sara Quin Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself. — Sara Quin

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

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

Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right. — Sara Quin

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

That's the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you're not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don't deserve it. — Sara Quin

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while. — Sara Quin

I've got nowhere to go, I've got nowhere to go. — Sara Quin

My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell the truth so you had to make up a story about whatever you were looking at. He really taught us how to lie. — Sara Quin

Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic. — Sara Quin

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

I have always felt this
And I, I could never hear it
So I turned it up
And turned it on
And turned it down
Always the volume always the words — Sara Quin

In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere. — Sara Quin

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

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

I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know. — Sara Quin

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale. — Sara Quin

All I need is time, time to love you. All I need is time, time to love you, time to love you. — Sara Quin

Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly. — Sara Quin

I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges. — Sara Quin

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

I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match. — Sara Quin

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with. — Sara Quin

What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know. — Sara Quin

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

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

Go (please stay), Go (please stay), Go if you want to,I can't stop you. Just go if you want to I can't stop you. — Sara Quin

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you — Sara Quin

Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty. — Sara Quin

Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out. — Sara Quin

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

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I'm like loving a raincloud. — Sara Quin

I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then. — Sara Quin

Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies. — Sara Quin

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

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

If I wasn't in a monogamous gay relationship I would have sex with all of you — Sara Quin

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

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

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

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

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world. — 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. — Sara Quin

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

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

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

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. — Sara Quin

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

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

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

The muscles fought so long
To control against the pull of
One magnet to another magnet — Sara Quin

I look into the mirror for evil that just does not exist. — Sara Quin

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest. — Sara Quin

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

I think that bad drama in a relationship has nothing to do with the individuals, it just really has to do with the dynamic that those individuals create. — Sara Quin

No matter which way you go . No matter which way you stay. You're out of my mind, out of my mind. — Sara Quin

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

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

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't. — Sara Quin

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

I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you. — Sara Quin

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them. — Sara Quin

Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem. — Sara Quin

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

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

I know how I was born and I know that I have no choice. I know it may not show on the color of my skin, but I know it's in my heart and in my soul. — Sara Quin

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

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

Audience member: Living Room!
Sara: Kitchen — Sara Quin

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

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

If they don't like you who the fuck cares. — Sara Quin

I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most. — Sara Quin

On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something. — Sara Quin

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

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. — Sara Quin

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

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

Sometimes it feels what I recovered you lost, sending your peaceful loss to me. — Sara Quin

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

I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship. — Sara Quin

I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo? — Sara Quin

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