I have approximately 65 sq ft. of Verde Peacock installed in my kitchen and there are no diagnol lines of light color running through it anywhere.

When I was looking for granite, I had a sample of verde peacock from the fabricator but when I went to the first stone yards none of their slabs looked as good as my sample. I didn't like the slabs at the second or third yards either. I went to a fourth one and hit the jackpot. Its hard to photograph the granite but maybe you can see enough of it in this picture to be able to compare it to what you are looking at.

If you have other stone yards near you, I think you should go look at more samples, unless you love the diagonal line.

Yes, it can have veins like you describe. Verde Peacock is very common, you should have no trouble finding slabs with no veining.

blue pearl has a similar look, but I noted variation in slabs as well.

these are both very hard stones that are iridescent and quite beautiful.

Thank you for the replies and the gorgeous photos. We decided to hold out for other material, and we will go see same later this week. Thanks again.