How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The thunk, I admit it, will make me smile. A rare thing lately. (2.2)
Right off the bat, Min's tells Ed she's been sad about their breakup. Sorry, girl—smiling won't be so rare soon, Shmoop promises.
Quote #2
She told me it would be hard dating her brother the basketball star. "You'll be a widow," she told me, licking the spoon and turning up Hawk. "A basketball widow, bored out of your mind while he dribbles all over the world." (4.55)
"Widow" is an interesting choice of word, no? It foreshadows the way in which Min will grieve the relationship.
Quote #3
"Take them back, Ed. Here they are. Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could." (4.111)
Min says she'd change the past if she could. No doubt about it, she's got a raging case of regret.
Quote #4
And my umbrella, lost that day, where is it? I know I had it that morning. Give it back, Ed, if you have it, I'm lost without it on rainy days, although it's December now, so it's they say snow, and an umbrella in a snowstorm is ridiculous, a seat belt if you're not in a car, a helmet if you're not on a bike, like a fish needs a bicycle or however they say it, like coffee needs to be black, like a virgin needs a boyfriend. So many things I'll never get back. (21.1)
Another regret? Losing her umbrella and her virginity. Same diff.
Quote #5
But everything else is gone. I mean, I love you is gone, and your dance upon the stage, and all the perfection for the party. Even the party would have been gone, had we ever had it." (23.68)
Eat your heart out, Lifetime movies—it doesn't get much more maudlin then this.
Quote #6
But these are here, Ed. Look at them, weighty now and heavy-making on the heart when I open the tin and rattle them in my hands sore from writing you. They've been made indelible, Ed, because everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better. (23.69)
Min's not feeling better… yet. But it looks like her plan to dump the breakup box on Ed's doorstep has helped Min see that she'll feel better eventually. Little victories, yo.
Quote #7
You came down fully dressed and started slicing the cucumber and kissed me on the top of my head. I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point to. (32.4)
Why was Min feeling melancholy pre-breakup? Unclear. It's like her heart knows what's going to happen before her brain does.
Quote #8
Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful. (40.1)
There's no bummer quite like cleaning up after a party you were never invited to. Not that we'd know…
Quote #9
Wish it was the last time I found you beautiful, Ed. I could have let you go then, pushed back your kisses and toppled us into traffic instead of the way you haunt my hallways now. (40.31)
Ed's a ghost that haunts Min at school—and not the good kind, like in Harry Potter, either.