I Swear I'll Make It Up to You Quotes

“millions of other people had been feeling alone at the same time. We had been alone together.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“We had taken a journey through the darkness and emerged, whole but transformed, on the other side.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“I had been wrong, and I had been wrong, and I had been wrong.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“even if I remember it wrong, this is how I remember it.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“The family is the problem. And if I don’t do something, I’ll be dead by my own hand in a year.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“All of your trespasses fall neatly under the umbrella of ‘normal human shittiness.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“it was a hassle sometimes. But you were far from the worst person in our crew.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“wondering if Izgi missed me, wondering if Allison ever missed me, wondering if anyone ever missed me.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“Bukowski had “DON’T TRY” engraved on his tombstone. Well, fuck you, Chuck.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“If you only fight dudes you know you’re going to beat, you’re not a fighter; you’re a bully.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“I didn’t have enough to pay the full fare, just a $20 Jens had stuffed in my hand.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“That’s how life goes sometimes: don’t do anything wrong, do everything right, fail anyway.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“In fact, by trying and failing over and over again, I had actually made a lot of progress.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“This great big excitable puppy dog of a guy who was totally falling apart.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“If you’d punched a guy in the face, there was no way to unpunch him.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“should I stop? No. That was my weak self, the one who whined and cried and drank in bed.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“didn’t want to die; I wanted to never have lived.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“A small, exquisitely painful truth came to me. Nothing bad had ever happened to me.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“Brooklyn in winter is the only thing that makes both Los Angeles and suicide seem equally appetizing.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“Removing painkillers from your life means inserting pain.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“My problem wasn’t that I was drinking too much; it was that I couldn’t drink enough.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“Chilling as it must be to watch someone die, it must be more chilling to watch yourself die in her eyes.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“it will kill you to fucking death, over and over, again and again. And you will go on living.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“when the world narrowed to a pinhole, the smartest thing you could say was just “Badeep badeep badeep, that’s all folks.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“I just . . . I don’t want to ruin your life.” She smiled. “What makes you so sure I’m not going to ruin yours?”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“But there is no more devoted gambler than a man who has been serially unlucky.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“If Columbia wouldn’t take me, I decided, I’d concede defeat and check in to rehab.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“I woke up several days later with knifing chest pains, feeling not hungover but mortally wounded by alcohol.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“My sadness ebbed, replaced by fearlessness and anger.”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road

“Apparently women weren’t attracted to morbid, weepy drunks?”
― Mishka Shubaly, I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road