Sara Quin Quotes

I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. ~ Tegan Quin

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

I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

Come together. Twins Forever. ~ Tegan 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn't what you were looking for. ~ Tegan Quin

Climbed up on the rainbow
Just to see if I'd fall off ~ Tegan Quin

Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

Prison is not a joke. ~ Emy Storey

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

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

Hey hey hey, you had your time. Ding! my turn. ~ Tegan 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 I'm going to hold you anyway
And I'll do it without shaking
Yes I'll love you always
And I'll do it without aching
Yes I'd give you anything
Yes I'd give you anything
I gave you everything ~ Tegan 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up. ~ Tegan Quin

It's not just all physical
I'm the type who will get oh so critical ~ 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

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

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

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

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