“What’s the matter with you, Yankele? I set you up with a nice job, and you turn down the shidduch?”

How long could he keep up this playacting in a role that demanded so much? He was a good actor, her husband

“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"

Bugi knew that as a homeless person he had no rights… but not to take a poor, deathly ill man to the hospital when he desperately needed medical care?  How cruel could people be?

“My money. It got into your pocket somehow. Don’t you feel like you’re carrying some extra weight there, something that isn’t meant for you?”

I love emes. But the emes is that I’m hollow… and that emes is too terrible to reveal

“Musa says once a beggar, always a beggar, but it’s not true. I know it’s not true. I’m telling you, Bugi, if you really want to get out of this, you will. I’ll get you out”