Cathy is Rachel’s roommate and longtime friend since their university days. Niceness, Rachel believes, is Cathy’s defining quality—no matter how many times Rachel gets into trouble or makes a drunken mess, she feels that Cathy will always accept her as she is. As Rachel descends deeper and deeper into her struggles with alcoholism, however, Cathy takes a stand. She serves Rachel with a formal eviction notice (though she later rescinds it) and becomes determined to help Rachel stop drinking, find a new job, and get back on her feet. Cathy’s faith in Rachel’s capacity for change and self-improvement never wavers, and her generosity and patience toward Rachel are seemingly boundless.
Cathy Quotes in The Girl on the Train
The The Girl on the Train quotes below are all either spoken by Cathy or refer to Cathy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
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"Honestly, Rachel, I don't understand how you could have kept this up for so long."
I shrug. "ln the morning, I take the 8:04, and in the evening, I come back on the 5:55. That's my train. It's the one I take. That's the way it is."
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Cathy Quotes in The Girl on the Train
The The Girl on the Train quotes below are all either spoken by Cathy or refer to Cathy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Rachel: One
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I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
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Rachel: Eight
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"Honestly, Rachel, I don't understand how you could have kept this up for so long."
I shrug. "ln the morning, I take the 8:04, and in the evening, I come back on the 5:55. That's my train. It's the one I take. That's the way it is."
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