“Oh...a lot of one and some of the other.”
“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.”
“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
“what's fate to you, opal? she asks. opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not. ”
“Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.”
“Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.”