“you're not the only one that's tried to make a coal into a diamond.”
Kris Roe (1978) American composer and singer
Clara
Song lyrics, Anywhere but Here (1997)
“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Reaper Man
Source: Reaper Man
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