Immortal at the Edge of the World Quotes

“I know in another decade or two I’m going to have to get used to the idea of reading without paper in my hands, but I’m going to be making that trip kicking and screaming. Maybe that sounds stubborn, but my relationship with the printed word is the longest one I’ve ever had and I’m not ready to quit on it yet.”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal at the Edge of the World

“Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal at the Edge of the World

“easier violence became for everyone involved. For most of my life, to kill someone meant getting close enough to get blood on your clothes. Most times one was using something sharp at close range, and most times the consequence was seeing the insides of another person and hearing them die in pain, and basically being okay with that. Now there are triggers and buttons and switches, and killing another person doesn’t necessarily involve even being in the same room with them. Guns may seem less barbaric than swords and knives, but the only difference I can see is in ease of use.”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal at the Edge of the World

“I own an island. Because when you have a chance to own an island, you just do.)”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal at the Edge of the World

“History was by definition one long chaotic, violent mess sometimes interrupted by magnificent eras of peace that remind everybody life occasionally wasn't awful.”
― Gene Doucette, Immortal at the Edge of the World