--- title: "1 Saw Loved Quotes By Anita Desai" description: "1 Saw Loved quotes by Anita Desai. Plus more from Anita Desai and more Saw Loved sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/anita-desai-24160_family_her-eyes-opened-at-this-sight-against-he_255965.jpg" --- > [“Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. But it was dark and shadowy, shaded by the bamboo screen at the door, the damp rush mats at the windows, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/her-eyes-opened-at-this-sight-against-her-will-and-she-looked-around/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/anita-desai-24160_family_her-eyes-opened-at-this-sight-against-he_255965.jpg) ## More by Anita Desai > [“Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. But it was dark and shadowy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/her-eyes-opened-at-this-sight-against-her-will-and-she-looked-around/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/the-wheel-turns-and-turns-and-turns-it-never-stops-and-stands-still/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/the-book-begins-and-ends-with-the-visits-to-give-the-impression-of-a/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/people-think-that-because-i-write-about-india-i-must-be-trying-to/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/someone-who-wants-to-write-should-make-an-effort-to-write-a-little/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [“The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/the-bougainvillea-hung-about-it-purple-and-magenta-in-livid-balloons/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/do-you-know-anyone-who-would-secretly-sincerely-in-his-innermost-self/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/ever-since-i-could-first-write-i-have-been-doing-so-when-i-was-taught/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/what-a-sense-of-possession-of-confidence-it-gave-one-to-have-pockets/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/i-aim-to-tell-the-truth-about-any-subject-not-a-romance-or-fantasy/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/my-style-of-writing-is-to-allow-the-story-to-unfold-on-its-own-i-try/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/i-try-to-trace-the-connection-between-the-characters-and-that-way-a/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/isn-t-it-strange-how-life-won-t-flow-like-a-river-but-moves-in-jumps/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/india-is-a-curious-place-that-still-preserves-the-past-religions-and/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) > [...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-desai/the-moon-that-hung-over-the-garden-like-some-great-priceless-pearl/) [Anita Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-desai/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/saw-loved/anita-desai/#itemlist", "name": "1 Saw Loved Quotes By Anita Desai", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. 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She could hardly believe, at that moment, that she would Iive on after they did or they would continue after she had ended. If such an unimaginable phenomenon could take place, then surely they would remain flawed, damaged for life. The wholeness of the pattern, its perfection, would be gone. 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