swear to

"I swear to God you will pay for this you dog," he shouted, before demanding that the captive beg for his life.

“I would rather perish than betray the secrets entrusted to me.… With every heartbeat, with every day that passes, I swear to serve the Party, the homeland, and the Soviet People.”

“There’s always the desire to overexplain. ‘I didn’t mean it that way, and I swear to God, I’m a feminist!’

There’s always the desire to overexplain, and be like, “I didn’t mean it that way, and I swear to God, I’m a feminist!”

"I swear to God this is real suffering."