Versions of Reality Quotes in The Girl on the Train

Rachel is half-right here. They are definitely what she wants to be, but she learns that her past isn't exactly what she thinks it was either. That, too, is colored by her imagination (and Tom's manipulation).

Megan is similar to Rachel, but different. Rachel imagines different lives for other people because thinks her own life is beyond hope, whereas Megan dreams of a different life for herself.

Megan doesn't know what she wants to do in her real life, so everything feels like a fantasy of sorts, like she isn't an adult, but is just pretending to be.