The Gaps Quotes

“If women hold up half the sky, then why are we so disposable?”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“I see every fallen body on the cover of a crime novel, and I can't help thinking that everyone wants their teenage girls ruined”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“Where do they go, those girls that accidentally fall through a gap in the universe? What's on the other side?”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“When you're dead everything stops ... You don't have a soul, because what you thought of as your soul was just electricity in your brain. You only exist while the machine thinks you do.”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“You don't know what it's like to be an outsider or a target, you don't know how easy it is to bring someone like me down. I tried, and I failed, and I just want to go away and be quiet now.”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“Death is the worst kind of silence, and I don't want to be silent.”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“Why is it so easy to override what girls and women want, what they might decide if they were given any control.”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps

“The introductory essay explains that the title is based on the Mao Zedong quote: Women hold up half the sky.

I'd read in the paper that morning how many calls the police hotline had received about Yin's disappearance - apparently hundreds of calls from people all over, and not just about Yin but about dozens of other missing women too. Shouldn't we be doing more to find them? Caring more that they've disappeared?

I know the longer Yin's gone, the more we should worry for her, but I've noticed that the pure fear of the first weeks has melted away. The more time that passes, the easier it becomes to forget.

If women hold up half the sky, then why are we so disposable?”
― Leanne Hall, The Gaps