At first she mistook them for sheets of pink crepe paper that someone had crumpled and carelessly flung down the hillside, perhaps after another astonishing party at the club. A moment later she remembered her great-grandmother's words and saw that they were hosts of wild pink zephyranthes that had come up in the night after the first fall of rain. Anita Desai
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The way we see things is often different from the way they actually are. A moment later, she saw that the pink flowers were actually wild zephyranthes and not sheets of pink crepe paper. She was not surprised to discover that her great-grandmother had also seen them differently than she had. Her great-grandmother's words had been very clear: “the zephyranthes have come up in the night after the first fall of rain,” and so they had. It was one thing to think something might be so; it was quite another to be sure - and this she was.

Source: Fire On The Mountain

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