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 The girl on the train book quotes

This is a very famous book, and I can apprehend its popularity, as I obtained into it very quickly, and study it over a length of about three days, simply looking to get lower back to it. The novel strikes backwards and forwards via time, telling the memories of three women, every in the first person, and this offers the narrative an intimacy and directness, which it may now not have, if it had been informed in the 0.33 person. The major protagonist, Rachel, sits on a train, observing the things to do in the homes alongside the track, in particular, the street the place she as soon as lived fortunately with her husband. As a writer, I ought to think about the creator sitting on that train, watching and writing what she saw, till unexpectedly the plot got here to her. In a voyeuristic fashion, Rachel focuses on a precise residence the place an curiously loving couple appear to stay the type of existence that she as soon as lived, earlier than breaking up with her husband, and she fantasises about this different husband, and feels outrage, when it appears his have confidence has been broken. So far, any story is in the main in her head, however then the spouse disappears, and Rachel receives concerned in her disappearance. The novel then strikes lower back a yr so that the spouse - Megan - can describe her lifestyles and what takes place to purpose her disappearance, and eventually, half of way thru the book, leaping ahead to the existing again, Anna appears, Anna being the ‘other woman’ who is now married to Rachel’s ex-husband, Tom. The three narratives are woven collectively like a plait, as progressively the story takes shape, and eventually, the reality emerges. The women’s names are all alternatively similar, all two syllables, and I puzzled if this used to be deliberate, due to the fact in some respects, although on the floor interestingly different, they are alike in some respects. None of them are very likeable, though as soon as you are interior someone’s head, you can’t assist having some empathy with them. From a readability factor of view, this clearly drew me in, however no longer solely are the female as a substitute unpleasant, or dysfunctional, the guys aren’t very nice, either. So from that factor of view, I can’t pretty supply it full marks, due to the fact I like to like the characters I’m spending my time with. 

The girl on the train quotes

"Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you"

"It’s ridiculous, when I think about it. How did I find myself here? I wonder where it started, my decline; I wonder at what point I could have halted it. Where did I take the wrong turn?"

"He’s a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless."

"Beautiful sunshine, cloudless skies, no one to play with, nothing to do. Living like this, the way I’m living at the moment, is harder in the summer when there is so much daylight, so little cover of darkness, when everyone is out and about, being flagrantly, aggressively happy. It’s exhausting, and it makes you feel bad if you’re not joining in."

"I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It’s true,"

"But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn’t it? People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying."

"It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers."

"A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told"

"When did you become so weak?” I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it."

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"