Wayne Turmel > Wayne's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My friends and I were famous, if that’s the word, as The Lice. We were small, annoying, and constantly in someone’s hair.”
― Wayne Turmel, Acre's Bastard: Historical Fiction from the Crusades

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running