Headhunters on My Doorstep Quotes

“Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks “because it makes other people less boring.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

“I treated the wound with antibiotic cream and let it close before doing any serious snorkeling—and incidentally, I do very much like the phrase serious snorkeling. If I could somehow figure out a way to incorporate the sentence I’m a serious snorkeler, bitchezz without it seeming like a gratuitous aside, I would. And I guess I just did. It’s magic, really.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

“They say that you can never go home again. You look for everything to be the same and when you find that things have changed, you are left reeling, crestfallen and dazed.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

“if you’re looking to see what the government of Kiribati finally decides to do, when do they wave the flag and say the last good-bye, I’m afraid I can’t help you. But look around, follow the news, Google it, bear witness. The very least we could do for the canary is acknowledge its demise.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

“Seriously. There were three of them, all roughly in their thirties, and they spent their time traveling the world, putting together documentaries about the earth’s wonders. The on-screen talent, I learned, did indeed write his own scripts, and came off as the Boss Man for the trio. He was the one with all the responsibilities—deciding on shots, dealing with the Home Office, periodically having to shave, etc. The camera guy did all the heavy lifting and was always one hernia or one dropped camera away from ruin. And the sound guy? He just stands there holding a lightweight microphone and a headset. Then ka-ching, paycheck, and he trots off to the Andes. It sounded ideal to me, a lazy traveler’s ideal profession. No thinking. No lifting of heavy objects. Just keep the mike out of the camera’s view and know what a woofer is. Easy-peasy. Then they asked me what I did.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

“running is different from drinking in at least one fundamental way—you never regret it when you’re done.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story