"They wanted something all their lives, but now they had it, they didn't recognize it. Perhaps, when someone has experienced a day-to-day life that makes sense, they can never become accustomed to strangeness. This is something that I, who have only experienced absurdity, can only suppose." This quote stopped me in my tracks. How many things had I wanted all my life and didn't recognize that I already had it? I'm not trapped in a bunker dreaming of getting out, but I feel like this can be said about everyone's lives. We get stuck in our heads about what we want but when do we ever just live? Am I letting my past realities fog my vision of the future? These women are so overcome with emotions they aren't able to enjoy that they got their wish. I know this will come back to haunt some of them.

I started this book a day ago, and I'm already at the middle point?! I am absolutely enraptured by it, I cannot stop reading it, I need to know what happens next.