Father Bobby: I'm telling you as a witness... and as a priest. We were at the game. Michael: Yes, as a priest, and a priest wouldn't lie? Am I right? Father Bobby: A priest with ticket stubs wouldn't need to lie. I always keep the stubs. Do you want ...
Lorenzo: The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.
Carol: The man I know is not the boy you remember. Lorenzo: None of us are.
Shakes' Father: [to Shakes' mother] I buried one fucking wife, I can bury another.
Father Bobby: [about Shakes' prank in the church] Nuns are such easy targets.
Lorenzo: [narrating] Hell's Kitchen was a place of innocence ruled by corruption.
Michael: You gotta get me one for our side. Lorenzo: One what? Michael: One witness. A witness who'll put John and Tommy somewhere else on the night of the murder. A witness they can't touch Lorenzo: Don't they got a name for that? Michael: A judge w...
Young Lorenzo: They killed him? Young Michael: They took turns beating him... until there was nothing left of that kid to beat.
Lorenzo: The plan, as it turned out, was as simple and as dumb as anything we'd ever done.
Lorenzo: Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions.
Lorenzo: I couldn't look at him. He might look right through the fear and the shame, right through to the truth.
[last lines] Lorenzo: The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever.
Sean Nokes: [to Inmates after breaking up fight] You know your time here hasn't taught you shit. You're still the same fucking clowns you were the day you walked in here.
Danny Snyder: Did you observe these experiences? Ralph Ferguson: Ye, ye, ye, yes. Danny Snyder: Did you more then *observe* these experiences?
Young John Reilly: I could die now, and I wouldn't be sad.
Nokes: [Watching Shakes undress and sees he's wearing a necklace] What the fuck is that hangin' around your neck? Take it off. Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: It's Mary, you know, the mother of God. Nokes: [scoffs] I don't give a fuck whose mother...
Father Bobby: And you won't need a doctor when I'm done, you'll need a priest - to pray over your body. [pause] Father Bobby: See you in church.
[Nokes is escorting Shakes, Mike, John, and Tommy down a corridor] Sean Nokes: It's a tragedy, I tell ya. I don't understand you, boys. I don't think you know what it means to have rules. You gotta have rules and you gotta have discipline. Now I don'...
