How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I don't worry when I blow off Jude that night and every single night that follows. I don't worry when she comes home and finds Brian and the hornets on the deck….I don't worry that night when she says, "So Mom wasn't enough? You have to steal all my friends too?" (3.608)
Jude and Noah betray one another in small ways at first, but those betrayals grow and grow and GROW until they're out of control.
Quote #2
I've done a bad thing. To her, to me. To Brian, even if he doesn't care, it still feels that way. (3.687)
Noah drops a hot and heavy kiss on Heather during a party game by pretending that she's Brian. The dishonesty of it all feels like a betrayal to everyone involved—himself most of all.
Quote #3
I scan the room for Brian, expecting him to be examining the spines of books still, but he's not. His face is like I've seen it only once before, all bricked up with fury, like he wants to hurl a meteorite at my head and he's not going to miss. (3.690)
You know how Noah thought that Brian wouldn't care that he kissed Heather? Well, guess he was wrong.
Quote #4
I see Brian being escorted into the closet, not by Courtney, but by my sister. My sister. How is this happening? This can't be happening. (3.694-3.696)
Noah's been treating Jude like garbage all summer, so she gets back at him by making a move on his love interest. Low blow.
Quote #5
I put my finger on the delete button and press hard, press murderously. I call the rest up, each one more awesome and strange and cool than the next, and wipe them out, one by one, until every trace of my sister's talent is gone from the world and only mine is left. (3.741)
In a fit of fury, Noah deletes all his photos of his sister's sand sculptures. It's not the first time he's sabotaged her artistic pursuits.
Quote #6
How can the same guy who took those photos of me and wrote those notes to me be making out with another girl on the other side of this door? (4.818)
You know who else is low-down dirty dog? Oscar, who nearly breaks Jude's heart when he hooks up with another girl. Sure, she snuck into his room and is creepily hiding in his closet, but there's a fine line between pseudo-stalkerishness and betrayal.
Quote #7
She's having an affair. She's cheating on Dad. She's a two-timer. A toilet-licking asshat liar. Mom! (5.422)
Noah does not take the news that his mother is having an affair well. She's not just betraying her husband; she's betraying her family.
Quote #8
What's happening right now, all the rage and confusion, the hurt and helplessness, the betrayal, it's a blowing volcano inside me and out of my mouth flies, "He's gay, Courtney! Brian Connelly is gay!" (5.437)
Having just found out his mother's having an affair, Noah is in a bad place. Seeing his love interest with a girl doesn't exactly help matters. Outing Brian is pretty toilet-licking as a betrayal on Noah's part, but it's easy to see how it happened. Again, not that that makes it better.
Quote #9
Dad drove us to the post office to mail off the applications.…I only mailed mine. I took from my brother the thing he wanted most in the world. What kind of person does that? (6.83-6.85)
This one's a doozy: Jude straight-up trashes Noah's application to art school. The disappointment of not getting in nearly ruins his life.
Quote #10
How could it have been okay for her to break Dad's heart like that? To break all the promises she made to him? To break up our family? Then again, how could it not be okay if she was being true to herself? Argh. It was right and wrong both. (8.107)
Jude has a lot of complicated feelings about her mother's affair with Guillermo. What's worse: to betray others, or to betray yourself?