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Scott Hipwell / “Jason”
Kamal Abdic is a Muslim refugee from Bosnia working as a therapist in Witney, a suburb of London. When he begins seeing Megan Hipwell as a patient, Kamal is determined to help the troubled, restless young Megan unspool the traumas of her past and make sense of how they’re impacting her in the present. Together, they work through Megan’s sense of self; her marriage to her husband, Scott; and her relentless need for male attention and approval. Abdic is a quiet, soft-spoken man who does his best to resist Megan’s quickly-growing romantic feelings for him, as acting upon them could lose him his practice. When Megan mysteriously disappears, Abdic is briefly detained as a suspect after Rachel tells Scott that she saw Megan and Abdic embracing on the terrace of the Hipwell house one morning. But with insufficient evidence tying him to Megan’s case, he’s soon released. Rachel, still suspicious of the man, decides to start attending appointments of her own with him—but during each therapy session, Rachel finds herself more and more comfortable with Abdic. She eventually confiding in him about her failed marriage; her struggles with infertility; and her sneaking suspicion that her ex-husband, Tom, lied about Rachel’s actions during her drunken blackouts. Sensitive, thoughtful, and deeply invested in his patients’ well-being, Kamal Abdic is a man who finds himself swept up in a maelstrom of secrets and lies.
Dr. Kamal Abdic Quotes in The Girl on the Train
The The Girl on the Train quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Kamal Abdic or refer to Dr. Kamal Abdic. 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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Megan: Six
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"I fell asleep," I say, and then I can't say any more, because I can feel her again, no longer on my chest, her body wedged between my arm and the edge of the tub, her face in the water. We were both so cold.
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Megan: Seven
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I'm just turning to walk to the station when a man comes running along the pavement, earphones on, head down. He's heading straight for me, and as I step back, trying to get out of the way, I slip off the edge of the pavement and fall.
The man doesn't apologize, he doesn't even look back at me, and I'm too shocked to cry out. I get to my feet and stand there, leaning against a car, trying to catch my breath.
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Rachel: Thirteen
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“Every time I passed that hole in the wall I thought about it. Tom said he was going to patch it up, but he didn't, and I didn't want to pester him about it. One day I was standing there […] and I […] remembered. I was on the floor, my back to the wall, sobbing and sobbing, Tom standing over me, begging me to calm down, the golf club on the carpet next to my feet, and I felt it, I felt it. I was terrified. The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear."
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Dr. Kamal Abdic Quotes in The Girl on the Train
The The Girl on the Train quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Kamal Abdic or refer to Dr. Kamal Abdic. 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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Megan: Six
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"I fell asleep," I say, and then I can't say any more, because I can feel her again, no longer on my chest, her body wedged between my arm and the edge of the tub, her face in the water. We were both so cold.
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Megan: Seven
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I'm just turning to walk to the station when a man comes running along the pavement, earphones on, head down. He's heading straight for me, and as I step back, trying to get out of the way, I slip off the edge of the pavement and fall.
The man doesn't apologize, he doesn't even look back at me, and I'm too shocked to cry out. I get to my feet and stand there, leaning against a car, trying to catch my breath.
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Rachel: Thirteen
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“Every time I passed that hole in the wall I thought about it. Tom said he was going to patch it up, but he didn't, and I didn't want to pester him about it. One day I was standing there […] and I […] remembered. I was on the floor, my back to the wall, sobbing and sobbing, Tom standing over me, begging me to calm down, the golf club on the carpet next to my feet, and I felt it, I felt it. I was terrified. The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear."
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