How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there, like I should have and wish wish wish I did. (8.126)
Ed's flirting with another woman while he's shopping with Min. Did you find that charming? Yeah, neither did we.
Quote #2
"What about you, Min?" she asked. "Do you need a shower?"
"I'm good," I said. There was a vibration in the kitchen, Ed, that you left me alone with, that I wasn't catching. (20.9-20.10)
This is the one of the first of Joan's many attempts to tell Min that her brother is bad news. Needless to say, it doesn't work.
Quote #3
"Did Ed tell you? He can't hang out tonight, he has a family thing."
"He did not," I said, "tell me."
Hawk Davies ended. "Yeah," she said carefully, "that sounds like him not to tell you," and I did not know what was going on that I was feeling. (20.32-20.34)
Joan has all but spray-painted "ED'S A LIAR" on the wall, but Min's still not catching her drift. Or is she?
Quote #4
"Well, you went out with Joe for how long, and you never asked me anything about what would a guy think."
"Well, but Joe was like you. Us."
"No, he wasn't. Not to me, anyway."
"You liked him, I thought."
Al put the ladder away. "Min, Joe was a manipulative dick." (22.168-22.172)
Min has a history of dating jerks. It is happening again.
Quote #5
We stayed like that listening to Joan close a closet and come down. Ed, it's ridiculous, but I loved her too. And could goddamn kill her for not saying something. Though what she could have said that I could have heard I cannot for the life of me see. (32.48)
Min is angry with Joan for not explicitly telling her that Ed cheated. Still, Min recognizes that Joan made an effort—and to be fair, Ed is Joan's brother, and Min even admits that Joan probably couldn't have convinced her of his terribleness anyway.
Quote #6
Lauren told me when we hung out that weekend that you must have wanted to be found out, that you wanted it over and that's why we ended up at Willows after practice. I think and think about it. But what I think is you were just outmaneuvered. (40.2)
Do you think Ed wants to be found out in the Willows scene? The text suggests that he is ready to take his relationship with Annette to the next level, so the timing of revealing his infidelity does seem awfully convenient.
Quote #7
"Those aren't for her," you said suddenly, and this was also, Ed, the wrong goddamn thing. (40.44)
Worst. Breakup. Line. Ever. Ed is talking about Annette's flowers, which indeed are not for Min. Dumping someone via text message seems almost gallant by comparison.
Quote #8
"You—did you sleep with her?" Nights I began to add up, when we didn't talk on the phone, or did but quickly. Joan mad and evasive answering, stomping upstairs to fetch you. I was a good listener, I am one. I was listening to all of it. (40.70)
Short answer: Yes, Ed has been sleeping with Annette. Finally, the exact nature of his treachery has been revealed.
Quote #9
You had every scrap of skin, and I had a handful of petals in one hand, somebody else's flowers, and this in the other. How many times had you been in Willows, seen it right there tacked to the wall next to a picture of kittens hanging from a tree, all bug-eyed sad, with a stupid caption everybody's seen a million times? (40.78)
It gets worse: Ed didn't just lie about Annette—he also lied about Lottie Carter, who is dead. Like a fool, Min has been planning Lottie's birthday party.