The Bogside Boys Quotes

“The only way to get over the last fall is to jump back on the horse and keep riding.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“It’s time to move on. Everyone has a past. That’s what we are, but it’s our future that counts more, what we aspire to be. That’s all we can control.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“being loyal isn’t a one off. It’s a lifetime bond.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“We all deal with things in different ways.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“He tried not to think too much; thoughts would only lead to worry and worry was a waste of emotion.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Shielding a child was impossible. Guidance was all that she could provide.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Some things are different, but essentially we’re the same people all our lives aren’t we? I mean, our circumstances might change, our priorities sure as hell do but are we really that different?”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“He felt history in his hands, the feeling of belonging, being part of something, and the undeniable grace of fighting for a cause that he now truly believed in. He felt connected to these strangers around him. They were his brothers now.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“This isn’t going to be easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. What we have is special. It always was,” he continued.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“I’m glad you’re able to appreciate what we take for granted.” “I appreciate life now, how fragile and wonderful it is. I intend to live mine well.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“He needed to forge his own way, to forget about the past, no matter how it tugged at him. There was a place for him in this new world,”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Life, her mother had once told her, was about decisions, decisions made in moments of great turmoil, and it was these decisions that defined us.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“There could be no freedom, no justice without sacrifice. Hadn’t all the great revolutions in history been born from people like him, wronged and thirsty for freedom and peace?”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Pictures and memories were all he’d ever be now.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“You know how diamonds grow, Mick? How they become?' The tears were rolling down his face as he spoke, the words coming like water gushing through breaches in a dam. 'By adding microscopic layers of crystals bit by bit, day by seemingly inconsequential day, over millions of years. It's the sum of all those days that makes them whole. That's how we grow, each experience adding another layer, turning us into the people we become. That's why none of us are the same, even though some of us look like we should be. We might have the same DNA, but we're different people. You've grown differently to me, into the brightest diamond of them all. I've been living in your light all this time.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“trying to do. It was too early to tell”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Some things did change. Not that she’d woken up one day as a different person. Getting older was as gradual as slipping into quicksand.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“The house was a shell of what it once had been. Once it had been full of laughter, full of life. Now it held only death and mourning, longing and regret. The tears came when he was alone in his bed when the pain became more than he could bear.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“After everything you’ve been through, after everything that you’ve seen, you’re still an optimist, you still see the good in people.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys