Michael: Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. Now it's time for all of us to get a taste.
Lorenzo: The plan, as it turned out, was as simple and as dumb as anything we'd ever done.
Michael: I just wish I could shut my eyes, and not see the places I've been.
Young John Reilly: I could die now, and I wouldn't be sad.
[voice over]
Lorenzo: Young protesters spoke about how they'd change our lives and fix the world. But while they shouted their slogans, my friends and I went to the funeral services of the young men of Hell's Kitchen who came back from Vietnam in body bags.
Carol: The man I know is not the boy you remember.
Lorenzo: None of us are.
Father Bobby: Listen, I got a story I want to tell you.
Young Tommy Marcano: It ain't the one about the lepers, is it? Cause that one gave me nightmares.
King Benny: Father Bobby would have made a good hitman. It's a shame we lost him to the other side.
Father Bobby: [about sermons, before the boys are sentenced] This is one of my favorites.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: What is?
Father Bobby: "Whatever you do to the least of brethren, you do to me".
Young Michael: We can eat hot dogs, or we can eat air. Choose...
Young Tommy Marcano: Air is probably safer, Mike...
Lorenzo: The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.
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.
Father Bobby: I stopped off at Attica today on my way up here to see an old friend of mine.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: You have any friends who aren't in jail?
Father Bobby: Not as many as I'd like.
Father Bobby: What about the life that was taken, Shakes? What's that worth?
Lorenzo: To me? Nothing.
Lorenzo: Do you love him?
Carol: I don't think about it, Shakes. If I did, I'd say yes.
Lorenzo: I didn't know you like pigeons so much.
King Benny: I like anything that don't talk.
Young Lorenzo: They killed him?
Young Michael: They took turns beating him... until there was nothing left of that kid to beat.
Lorenzo: Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions.
