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Patch
Young boy, one of the main characters
He decided he might wear that one on his wedding day should he ever work up the courage to speak to Misty Meyer.
So he likes Misty
Ivy Macauley
Patche's mother?
Sometimes she looked at him like he was the sum of her failings.
Patch's mother
Chief Nix.
Police chief?
Robertses’ house
The neighbors
Chuck dated Misty Meyer,
balaclava
One of wool masks that cover everything but the eyes
The next day an army of walkers would beat the woodland to find a purple eye patch with a silver star.
Saint
Patch's friend
Norma
Saint's mother or grandmother
confluence
Junction of 2 rivers
She moved quick past fallen trees that bookended the clearing. Head up, she scouted, but it wasn’t till she met the foot of the valley that she saw the spot. The T-shirt. The blood.
My theory: Patch is kidnapped and then he later becomes a serial killer
A local, Pattie Rayburn, had seen the van. It made a right turn onto Highway 35. Patch was gone.
turgid
Swollen distended congested
pervade
Spread
derecho
Line of intense and fast moving windstorms
In the state of Missouri two high school girls and a college kid had gone missing in the past eight months.
Saint knew that some people mistook money for class, anger for strength. When he closed the door all she felt was his fear.
Why is she afraid and of what or who? Mr. Meyer?
but sometimes Saint thought the truth was less palatable.
“Most men play at appearing decent; the rest aren’t as good at the game.”
Ivy
Dr. Tooms,
Sammy, the drunkard owner of Monta Clare Fine Art,
Langstroth
A design of a beehive
Jim Croce,
American folk and rock singer
“I see the older kids doing it. I believe it’s cupid’s arrow sticking right into my heart.”
Lol no it's a crude gesture
Daisy Creason from The Tribune,
Reporter
thurible,
A censer
“Every winter people say Monta Clare is too beautiful. It’s like a bigger crime, right? Because it happened here. It’s like none of us were prepared for the outside creeping in,” Misty said.
“I saw someone. I wanted to help him.” “Who did you see, Misty?” Misty finally tore her eyes from the stone and looked at Saint. “I saw Dr. Tooms.”
Hmm
A poor girl who had no sense of style, or femininity, no chance of finding a boy and then a man. A girl who looked to books for answers to questions that would never be asked of her. Weighed questions that had nothing to do with fashion or baking or making a goddamn motherfucking home.
Callie Montrose.
Another missing girl
Friendship was a difficult art to master.
Possible book quote
cogent
Clear, logical
Her breath caught a little. “My grandparents named me.” “Because your mother died before she could.” She nodded. “But the name…” “They said I was every good thing, Patch. Can you believe that?” He turned his head to look at her. “Sure, I can. Entirely and absolutely.”
Instead she raised her flashlight, and only when that blue-white beam met the crimson blood on his hands did she turn and run.
She saw Dr. Tooms with bloody hands
TRAP laws
Abortion laws
“Fair has little to do with religion and politics.”
Norma
“He’s a creep.” “Why?” Saint said. “More than once I saw him sitting in his car outside our high school.” Saint stared at Tooms. “Doing what?” “Watching the girls go by.”
She read more, of trauma and amygdala.
Reminds me of Amygdala and Yoongi
Kim
Ivy's landlord
Dick Lowell
Owns hardware store?
Jimmy Walters
A boy who seems to have a crush on Saint
As they strolled in the snow Jimmy pointed to the stems and told her of crownbeard and dittany. “Why did you bring these?” she asked. “I just wanted to show you that sometimes things survive despite the harshest of odds.”
Saint wanted to ask what it was like, to lose the thing that defined you. But perhaps she knew: it left you someone else. A stranger you had no choice but to tolerate, and see each day and feel and fear.
Possible book quote
“If you ever get the chance to make someone smile, or better yet, make someone laugh, then you take it. Each and every time,” Norma said.
Eli Aaron Photography
“He’s the photographer for half a dozen schools around here. You tell your friends not to go wasting their money.”
Hmmm so is this Eli Aaron photographer a possible suspect?
Saint took the photograph from its housing and flipped it over. She did not flinch when she saw the stamp. Eli Aaron Photography
She did not feel the kick of fear until she came to the largest barn, and through gaps in the wall saw the steel of a van. Navy.
The navy van!!!
