Book Choices

I'm joining the bandwagon because I’ve been tagged on facebook twice and my books and reviewers are all winking at me but I really want to procrastinate for a moment. Haha.

List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way:

1. The Bible

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

2. Art of War by Sun Tzu

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.”

--Can I just quote everything????

3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

4. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

“It is our choices that define what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

5. Ermita by F. Sionil Jose

“The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty, which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.”

“We cannot be rooted in the past forever. We must not be sentimental.”

6. Culture and History by Nick Joaquin

“Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become, and what we are at this moment.”

7. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

8. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Zedong

“Historical experience is written in iron and blood.”

“Women hold up half the sky.” ---although I think this was part of a speech, not of a book

9. Organic Chemistry by Clara Lim-Sylianco

There are books that you just can’t and won’t understand, whatever you do, and however you try. For me, this is one of those books. I closed it, and switched to Bruice.

10. Medicine books

These are the books that constantly remind me of the path I chose to take. And they make good pillows too! Haha

“We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves…”  -F. Sionil Jose

*all books photos are from Google. Most of my books are in the province, with only the med books left with me in Manila. Haha.