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Gabby Risley
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“Someone once told me that every writer has a subject that underlies everything they write. It can be love or death, betrayal or belonging, home or hope or exile. I choose to think that my subject is love, and most specifically love for the glittering world of non-human life around us.”
― Vesper Flights
― Vesper Flights
“Literature can teach us the qualitative texture of the world. And we need it to. We need to communicate the value of things, so that more of us might fight to save them.”
― Vesper Flights
― Vesper Flights
“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.”
― A Director Prepares
― A Director Prepares
Gabby’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
565 books
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2 friends
29 books
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1 friend
72 books
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1 friend
10 books
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1 friend
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Romance, Science, and Spirituality
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