“Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.”
“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”
“Slow down, sugar, because im a diabetic.”
“Henry went down on one knee. 'Like King Arthur's knights,' Mr. Fogarty had told him, but he didn't feel much like a knight. In fact he felt like a twit.”
“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.”
“He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.”