"You're just like that diamond - flawless, brilliant, perfect and utterly without color. All your sad attempts to appear exciting, unconventional, are just that - sad attempts." He laughed harshly. "As if digging up mummies, rooting in your little plot of dirt by the Mediterranean, could confer character! That diamond, which all the world considers so perfect, is in reality dead common. Like you. You're thirty-five years old and you're unloved and unloving."