Advisable Quote by Audrey Niffenegger

“When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.”

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What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

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