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“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.”
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“I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.”
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“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.”
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“I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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“Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.”
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“An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.”
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“I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.”
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“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.”
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“Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.”
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“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.”
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“I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.”
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“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?”
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“Now I'm all messed up, sick inside wondering where you're leaving your makeup.”
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“I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.”
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“Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.”
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“I look into the mirror for evil that just does not exist.”
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