Bod was obedient but curious.

It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.

Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?"
"Yes, someone did."
"A Man?"
"A Man."
"Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question."
Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?"
"Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?"
"No?"
"No. It's who will keep him safe from me?

Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.

Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns