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Quote by Laura Mullen

“Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many.”

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Laura Mullen, born in 1958, is an accomplished American poet known for her profound emotional depth and unique narrative style. Her works have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.”

Ifs Feels May Has Beens Shows Mark Painful Violent Borders Maps Museums Texas Mexico Site Negotiation Confusing Arbitrary Transient Clarifying El Paso

Author:Laura Mullen

“'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.”

People Thinking Life Is Song Relate Good Times Going Out Having A Good Time Fast Life

Author:Joe Jonas

“What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move on, you know? She's still there - and by "she" I mean me - caught in that windowless room, that bad bargain and that violation. No one can touch me, sexually, without activating that memory. But I had walled, I thought, that time off. I say that and then want to say "and I got off lightly"!”

Knows Want Writing Mean Stills Moving Memories Rooms Caught Violation Bargains Sexually Touch Me Time Off

Author:Laura Mullen

“There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country”

“Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.”

Care Deserve Abuse Ill Protection Damage Cycles Admitting

Author:Laura Mullen

“I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.”

Needs Looks Children Different Helping Might America Faces Culture Issues Happened Honest Honesty Abuse Illness Being Honest Child Abuse Perversity

Author:Laura Mullen

“Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.”

Thinking Firsts Names Steps Doors Disease Shame Cancer Aids Cures Ashamed Productive First Steps Epidemics Trajectory Aids Epidemic

Author:Laura Mullen

“I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.”

Decision Situation Wind

Author:Lykke Li

“I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.”

People Want Done Realizing Collaboration

Author:Lykke Li

“I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.”

Sake

Author:Lykke Li

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