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Cadence “Cady” Eastman
Ed’s nephew and Cady’s love interest. Although he is not related to the Sinclairs by blood, Gat begins spending his summers at Beechwood when he is eleven. His uncle Ed is in a relationship with Carrie, one of the Sinclair daughters, and when Gat joins the Sinclair family on the island, he becomes inseparable with Cady, Johnny, and Mirren, and the four become known to the family as the Liars. Cady and Gat fall in love over the course of the next few summers, and during the summer of their fifteenth year, they begin a romantic relationship. Both Gat and Ed occupy a strange place in the family: while Harris Sinclair is ostensibly welcoming to them, he is uncomfortable with the idea that the two of them—as men of South Asian descent—could marry into his family and therefore sully the racial and ethnic purity of the Sinclair bloodline. Harris’s bigotry is subtle enough to go unnoticed by most of the family, but Gat is well aware of his place as an outsider. In contrast to the wealth that Johnny, Mirren, and Cady take for granted, Gat comes from a working-class background and is suspicious of the materialism and elitism he observes around him on Beechwood. His connection to the Sinclair family becomes even more tenuous when his uncle Ed proposes to Carrie and she rejects him. Carrie knows that if she marries Ed, she will lose her share of the inheritance from her father and that she, Ed, and Gat will be cut off from the family. Worried about losing their special bond, the Liars decide to burn down Clairmont, the main house on the island, which contains all of the financial documents and many of the prized family possessions. Without his financial control over his daughters, they reason, Harris will not be able to separate Ed and Gat from the family, and they will all be able to be together. Unfortunately, their plan goes awry, and Gat, Johnny, and Mirren die in the fire, leaving Cady without the young man she was attempting to hold on to in the first place.
Gatwick “Gat” Patil Quotes in We Were Liars
The We Were Liars quotes below are all either spoken by Gatwick “Gat” Patil or refer to Gatwick “Gat” Patil. 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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Part 1: Welcome
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“Maybe land shouldn’t belong to people at all. Or maybe there should be limits on what they can own.” He leaned forward. “When I went to India this winter, on that volunteer trip, we were building toilets. Building them because people there, in this one village, didn’t have them.”
“We all know you went to India […] You told us like forty-seven times.”
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“Watch yourself, young man,” said Granddad, sharp and sudden.
“Pardon me?”
“Your head. You could get hurt.”
“You’re right,” said Gat. “You’re right, I could get hurt.”
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Part 3: Summer Seventeen
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“You feel like you know me, Cady, but you only know the me who comes here,” he says. “It’s—its just not the whole picture. You don’t know my bedroom with the window onto the airshaft, my mom’s curry, the guys from school, the way we celebrate holidays. You only know the me on this island, where everyone’s rich except me and the staff.”
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“Someone did something to me that is too awful to remember.”
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Part 4: Look, a Fire
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“He knows he’s not supposed to be that guy. He’s a Democrat, he voted for Obama—but that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable having people of color in his beautiful family.”
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“You chose Ed; you chose to live with him. You chose to bring Gat here every summer, when you know he’s not one of us. You know the way Dad thinks, and you not only keep running around with Ed, you bring his nephew here and parade him around like a defiant little girl with a forbidden toy.”
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Gatwick “Gat” Patil Quotes in We Were Liars
The We Were Liars quotes below are all either spoken by Gatwick “Gat” Patil or refer to Gatwick “Gat” Patil. 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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Part 1: Welcome
Quotes
“Maybe land shouldn’t belong to people at all. Or maybe there should be limits on what they can own.” He leaned forward. “When I went to India this winter, on that volunteer trip, we were building toilets. Building them because people there, in this one village, didn’t have them.”
“We all know you went to India […] You told us like forty-seven times.”
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“Watch yourself, young man,” said Granddad, sharp and sudden.
“Pardon me?”
“Your head. You could get hurt.”
“You’re right,” said Gat. “You’re right, I could get hurt.”
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Part 3: Summer Seventeen
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“You feel like you know me, Cady, but you only know the me who comes here,” he says. “It’s—its just not the whole picture. You don’t know my bedroom with the window onto the airshaft, my mom’s curry, the guys from school, the way we celebrate holidays. You only know the me on this island, where everyone’s rich except me and the staff.”
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“Someone did something to me that is too awful to remember.”
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Part 4: Look, a Fire
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“He knows he’s not supposed to be that guy. He’s a Democrat, he voted for Obama—but that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable having people of color in his beautiful family.”
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“You chose Ed; you chose to live with him. You chose to bring Gat here every summer, when you know he’s not one of us. You know the way Dad thinks, and you not only keep running around with Ed, you bring his nephew here and parade him around like a defiant little girl with a forbidden toy.”
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