Rat Bastards Quotes

“On going to hell….
“When I think of judgment day, I get emotional. It’s a heavy thing. I did what I did and there’s no erasing it. I can write an honest book, be an honest man, help little old ladies across the street but what’s done is done. There’s no escaping that. Whatever it is, I’ll do my time, even for eternity.”
― John "Red" Shea, Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir

“Whitey said, ‘Most guys are trying to break out of jail, but that kid’s trying to break in.”
― John "Red" Shea, Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir

“Or else. When I was late for dinner, she’d chase me down the street, screaming at me, yelling at me, grabbing me by the hair and dragging me up the street because I wasn’t on time. But that was the era. They were all like that, the parents. That’s how they grew up, that’s how they were taught. She’d use belts, a broom, a spatula. Amazing the household items that could become enforcers.”
― John "Red" Shea, Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir