I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost 16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it. (Erma Bombeck)

I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost 16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

Erma Bombeck

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