Tegan And Sara Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now.

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

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.

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

What I love about being queer is... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.

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?

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

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.

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

I saw my first angel. And it was you.

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.

I was a fool for love, I was a fool.

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.

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.

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

I’m the type of girl, When you fall in love, You fall forever.

It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

So let’s make things physical, I won’t treat you like you’re oh so typical

Now I'm all messed up, sick inside wondering where you're leaving your makeup.

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.

Sara and I both have this very self-deprecating, almost abusive way of looking at ourselves. We both feel like we can be very destructive and very pessimistic and very tortured and very weak, but in a weird way those are some of our best qualities.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I feel you in my heart,and I don't even know you.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you. Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

When your love lets you go you only want love more, even when love wasn’t what you were looking for.

Come together. Twins Forever.

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.

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

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.

You slip your hands inside my pockets. Tell me nothing else would do. Without me, you can't live. And, you slip your heart into my chest. They both become one of the strongest pairs when strangers come.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Begging ocean please, help me drown these memories. All I need to hear is that you're not mine,you're not mine.

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.

Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at.

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.

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.

Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.

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.

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.

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.