“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.”
“Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.”
“Old lady Patterson is a real tightwad.” Raising his voice so it would carry, the man continued, “If she stuck a lump of coal up her ass, within a week she’d shit out a diamond.”
“He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.”
“Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.”