All Souls Quotes

“I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

“It’s funny, I thought, how the people who seem the meanest, the people we want nothing to do with, might be in the most pain.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

“When the thousands of people sang the national anthem, with their right hands over their chest, I cried. It was as if we were singing about an America that we wanted but didn't have, especially the part about the land of the free.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

“But the general feeling in the neighborhood was that school was for suckers. The dropouts were the ones who said that the most, and of course they usually looked as if they were having the most fun, wearing the best clothes, and making the most loot from drugs and petty scams. Ma said Kathy was starting to get into the drugs, but I already knew that. She said she’d heard that the 8th Street gang was”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie