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  1. "She'd cried. It was only fair; Rosa was probably crying somewhere. People cried when their hearts were broken. This wasn't about Grace's heart, though. It couldn't be."
    Poor Grace...her heart was broken twice over. Once for Rosa's sake and once because she thought and expected better of Emmett :( it's so sad when you see someone you love hurt another person

    "She'd spent a lifetime shouldering responsibility, but that didn't mean she couldn't lay blame when it was a matter of truth."
    Grace is wise and kind and the bestest

    "He's an idiot," she said, to Paco, or to the water—or maybe to nobody at all.
    Paco whined.
    She knelt. The sand was everything at once—soft, yielding, but gritty against her knees. She never did this; she never just let herself be tired.
    MY WISE, HARD-WORKING DAUGHTER YOU NEED TO JUST HAVE A DAY OR WEEK WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING. Poor woman doesn't really have many people, any really, who she can confide in. And yet she still manages :( Emmett, shape up quick because this girl loves you to death

    There was this one time, when he was fifteen and she was seventeen, that he told her his greatest fear.
    Hand sweeping, one of his spastic-yet-graceful motions—"I don't want to be like them?"
    "Them?" She thought he might mean, everyone else. In a way, he kind of did.
    "Mom. Ike. Everybody who's just…stuck."
    And Grace had said, "Emmett, you're never going to be like them." Because even at his worst, he was so much brighter, spangle-bright. Bright like pain.
    He had relaxed a little, but the lines on his forehead hadn't. "But if I was…who would even know?"
    "I would," Grace had said, and then she'd done something tremendously stupid: she'd reached out and taken his hand. "I'd tell you."
    He'd looked at her, then, as if he actually believed her. As if he was going to do something to change. As if—but the next day, he was back to blowing off his classes, sweet-talking his way into better grades, and generally not giving a damn about anything.
    Grace always fell for it.
    Not this time.
    -OKAY THIS IS MY FAVORITE PASSAGE SO BEAUTIFUL AND ANGSTY! I feel bad for Emmett but also hopeful, because like Grace I can see all the potential he has, and I cannot wait for him to get unstuck so I can stop crying for his sake and Grace's...I just love how much Emmett looks up to Grace

    "It was a little sudden. Emmett should have given her more warning. She didn’t want him to go, but Grace didn’t want him at all…He was going. Responsibilities, distractions, call it what you would."
    You do a great job of bringing in Emma's characterization. She is fine with doing good and charitable things, especially when it kind of helps her out. But also deep down she is really a good-hearted person and just needs to learn not to let consideration of her own wants to get in the way. So it is with Emmett it seems.

    “How’d you—” Emmett started ask a question, figured it was impolite, and stopped. Had he really failed, in the past month and a half, to learn anything real about Harry? Grace’s face appeared in his mind, with a knowing expression. He sighed, but he didn’t exactly send the image away.
    SO LIKE MY FAVORITE THING IS EMMETT REALIZING WHERE HE HAS MESSED UP AND, IF NOT FIXING IT RIGHT AWAY, HE AT LEAST HAS THE GRACE (HAH) TO ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE HIS MISTAKES AND THEN TO DO BETTER

    But Harry asked no such thing. He turned the conversation back to the work the Woodhouse family did with their foundation, and Emmett was struck, suddenly, by the fact that Harry might occasionally have tact.
    Grace had thought well of him. Had. Had.
    If you were an idiot, you wouldn’t screw shit up as badly as you do.
    His mouth was dry.
    -AAAHHH EMMETT DISCOVERING THAT HARRY IS BETTER THAN HE THOUGHT BUT THEN FEELS REALLY GUILTY (AS HE SHOULD BUT STILL IT HURTS)

    MARNIE GO AWAY

    EMMETT WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT MARNIE IS ALL ABOUT yOU NOT HARRY

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