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In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

Matthew J. Kirby

Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a part of life in this world, part of a cycle....Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you're hearing the tale.

Matthew J. Kirby

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

Matthew J. Kirby

Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an illusion that broke like a wave upon the juggernaut of time. The past remained the past.

Matthew J. Kirby

He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.

Matthew J. Kirby

Matthew J. Kirby

Matthew J. Kirby

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Bio: Matthew J. Kirby is an American author of several middle grade children's books. His debut novel, The Clockwork Three, is a children's historical fantasy set in a fictional American city in the late 19th century.

Known for:

The Clockwork Three
The Lost Kingdom
The Arctic Code
A Taste for Monsters
Cave of Wonders

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