John "Red" Shea > Quotes

“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

“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