Rysa Walker Quote

Take that and go play. I don’t care if it takes a year. Get the boy out of your system and then get back here. We’ve got work to do. At the time, I thought Saul meant I needed to take some time to grow up. Get the boy out of my system and come back a man. But thinking back on that conversation a few years later, I’m pretty sure Saul believed there was something going on between me and Kier. I seriously doubt Saul ever had a relationship with anyone unless it would bring him sex or power. I’m not sure he understood anything else. But it wasn’t ever like that with Kiernan, no matter what Saul thought. I had all kinds of half-siblings, full-siblings, too, maybe, but I never thought of them as family. None of them ever stood up for me in the play yard, although I guess many of them were actually younger than me, so maybe that wasn't a fair expectation. None of them played kick the cones with me, none of them taught me about baseball. That’s the kind of thing brothers do. There was a whole big world out there to explore, and it would be a lot more fun exploring it together.