Shiny Midnight Black/Quotes

"Her hair a black so true it gleamed blue where the light touched it..."

—Phèdre no Delaunay (describing Mélisande Shahrizai), Kushiels Dart

"...But she was a cat of no ordinary size, and her fur was lustrous and rich, with a thousand different glints and shades of ink black, shadow gray, the blue of a deep lake under a noon sky, mist-lavender-moonlight-fog... To see the meaning of the word subtlety, you had only to look at her fur."

— Will Parry (describing his daemon Kirjava) in The Amber Spyglass, Book 3 of the His Dark Materials trilogy.

"...and there streamed forth, into the rushing atmosphere of the chamber, huge masses of long and dishevelled hair; it was blacker than the raven wings of the midnight!"

—The narrator (describing the reincarnation of his dead first wife) in the novella Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe