Aliyah

“Frodo looked up at the Elf standing tall above him, as he gazed into the night, seeking a mark to shoot at. His head was dark, crowned with sharp white stars that glittered in the black pools of the sky behind.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grownup. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“After making sure that the terrain would be undisputedly its own, the sun slowly and majestically emerged from its resting place and established absolute dominion in a matter of seconds, blissfully unaware that its conquest would not last for more than a day. Its swift triumph was marked by an explosion of radiance which overawed nature for a brief moment; therewith an orgy of birdsong, corrupted by sporadic and pretentious cocks' crowing, marked the beginning of another day.”
― Nabil Saleh, The Qadi and the Fortune Teller

“The blood of the setting sun suddenly spilled out on the western horizon like that of millions of people who have died in some violent war that has broken out between Earth and Heaven. Suddenly the war ended in defeat and all-embracing darkness descended and pervaded all four corners of the globe, wiping out the sadness and shyness that was in her eyes.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North