| I smiled thoughtfully to myself as I ticked off the amount of yeses on my fingers. |
| But all I have is one maybe and a handful of yeses conditional on coming up with the money. |
| The yeses are the different areas of struggle, the different lines of flight to possible different worlds. |
| One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos. |
| We have 5 yesses, two nos, and a maybe as long as nobody goes into labour that day. |
| Rilla counted them up as each name was called, and found a large majority of yesses. |
