# Quote — Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

> But I'd felt as if I'd pissed my life away in the same way that you can piss money away. I'd had a life, full of kids and wives and jobs and all the usual stuff, and I'd somehow managed to mislay it. No, you see, that's not right. I knew where my life was, just as you know where the money goes when you piss it away. I hadn't mislaid it at all. I'd spent it.

- Author: [Nick Hornby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby.md)
- Book: [A Long Way Down](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down/but-id-felt

## More from this book

> I wanted to make my life short, and I was at a party in Toppers' Hose, and the coincidence was too much. It was like a message from God. OK, it was disappointing that all God had to say to me was, like, Jump off a roof, but I didn't blame him. What else was he supposed to tell me?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down/i-wanted-to-make.md)

> And another way of explaining it is that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down/and-another-way.md)

> I couldn't get the mood back; it was as if one of the kids had woken up just as Cindy and I were starting to make love. I hadn't changed my mind, and I still knew that I'd have to do it sometime. It's just that I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it in the next five minutes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/a-long-way-down/i-couldnt-get.md)