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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)

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Parker’s Quotes

“Belief has nothing to do with truth.”
― Percival Everett, James

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“God’s greatest gift to us is our ability to love others, and to see it happening before your eyes … it’s like watching a garden grow.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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“Their family had always been good at hellos and goodbyes, moments ending even as they began. It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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