"You don't rush things that can kill you if they fail," he said. That was his mantra.
That was his way.
He smiled—a rare, crooked thing. "Now you learn to teach someone else." my stepdaddy trained me well
He patted my back once, gruffly. "You trained yourself. I just held the ladder." "You don't rush things that can kill you
My mom got better. Remission. Marcus held her in the driveway when we got the news, and I saw his shoulders shake for the first time. " he told me one night
"You're not helpless," he told me one night, after she'd fallen asleep on the couch. "Helpless is a choice. And you were never taught to choose it."