“You know, Yitzy,” Yossi began, “if the math test really bothers you, why don’t you just go over to Mr. Goldfarb and ask him to move it to a different day?”
“They’re not being fair. I work for Yocheved, I can’t do anything that will hurt her business”
“I’ve just about finished informing every person on the planet that I’m no longer a rising star in the filmmaking world. Tomorrow I have big plans to start knitting a sweater”
“I know I’ll never really go ahead with it,” he told Raizele that evening. “I don’t have the courage to change my whole life”
“You told us not to give you a phone, even if you begged for one in the middle of the night”
“This is hard,” Yitzy muttered. “Way too hard. I’m just a kid. Kids don’t give up Ball-Bloops to learn Mishnayos. It’s impossible”
