Tegan And Sara Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead — Tegan Quin

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one. — Tegan Quin

I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness in your voice, I hear noises in the darkness, I hear sadness inside you. — Tegan Quin

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

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

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

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

Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don't exist.
Tegan: I just thought they were extinct. — Tegan Quin

One time in your life
You've got the route in hand
But the map is stuck
They said it's not your fault
The tires are tired the camera moves
And your driver's been pulled — Tegan Quin

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? — Tegan Quin

Make a map of what you see,
Direct pain effectively. — Tegan 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and tell them all the crazy things that happened to you all day long, and in the end that's what it's about, kids. It's not about the sex, it's not about the money that they give you or whatever. It's not about how good-looking they are, it's about, can they listen to you talk for hours and hours and hours about stupid shit that doesn't matter. — Tegan Quin

So let's make things physical,
I won't treat you like you're oh so typical — Tegan Quin

I was a fool for love, I was a fool. — Tegan Quin

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

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

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

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

Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. — Tegan 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

I'm a frosted lemon coward — Tegan Quin

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

I saved up all my sunshine
Just to see you more clear
I'm a little short on solar
And I haven't given in — Tegan Quin

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you. — Tegan Quin

Don't run away, It only fuels the flames. Don't pull away, It only makes me wanna stay. — Tegan Quin

Lets be twins forever. — Tegan Quin

You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly. — Tegan Quin

Creep up and tell me that you, you love me more each time you, look into my eyes. — Tegan Quin

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

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 Quin

Every moment was that moment, every day was that day, every second was that second, and I've lost myself again. — Tegan Quin

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

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

I listened in
Yes I'm guilty of this
You should know this — Tegan Quin

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

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

I don't know how
No don't know to hold you
Without shaking
No I'm not aware of how
I could possibly love you
Without aching — Tegan Quin

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

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

I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now. — Tegan Quin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hold out for the ones you know will love you. — Tegan 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 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

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

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

All I want to get is a little bit closer
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?
Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer
Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer — Tegan Quin

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

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

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

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

I'm the type of girl,
When you fall in love,
You fall forever. — Tegan Quin

Promise me you'll never go away.
Promise me you'll always stay. — Tegan 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Do you think the guy on the subway that is touching himself feels like he's spreading love? I will tell you right now there is a law against that. — Sara Quinn

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

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

They didn't fly out of my body, I actually had to push the little fuckers out. — Sonia Clement

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 for
Speak slow, tell me love where do we go. — Tegan Quin

I want the ocean right now. I want the ocean right now. I get so jealous that I can't even work. — Tegan Quin