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Nobody “Bod” Owens
Scarlett is Bod’s only living friend throughout his childhood. Five-year-old Scarlett meets Bod when her parents take her to play in the graveyard, but her parents believe that Bod is just Scarlett’s imaginary friend. (Given the improbability of a little boy living alone in a graveyard, Scarlett eventually goes along with this and believes that Bod was a figment of her imagination.) Like Bod, Scarlett is bright and fearless. She longs to experience the graveyard as Bod does, but since she doesn’t have the Freedom of the Graveyard, she can’t slip through walls or see ghosts. When she encounters the Sleer, for instance, she can’t hear his voice and only perceives a frightening hissing noise. Around this time, Scarlett and her family move away, though she returns 10 years later. Her parents have just divorced, and Scarlett resents them for it and for uprooting her life yet again. But Scarlett’s anger and unhappiness begins to soften when she reconnects with Bod and meets Mr. Frost, a nice historian who claims to be conducting research in the graveyard. With Mr. Frost’s help, Scarlett takes on the task of investigating the murders of Bod’s biological parents and sister. She’s caught off guard when Mr. Frost turns out to be Jack, the murderer. When Jack threatens to kill Scarlett, Bod rescues her by imprisoning Jack in the barrow grave. But even though Bod saved her life, Scarlett thinks Bod is a monster for knowingly imprisoning Jack. After this, Silas wipes Scarlett’s memory and convinces Scarlett’s mother to take Scarlett back to Glasgow. Even though this event marked the end of Bod’s and Scarlett’s friendship, it nevertheless taught him a lot about selflessly looking out for one’s friends and thus aided him in his coming-of-age journey.
Scarlett Amber Perkins Quotes in The Graveyard Book
The The Graveyard Book quotes below are all either spoken by Scarlett Amber Perkins or refer to Scarlett Amber Perkins. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“What are you doing now?”
“ABCs,” said Bod. “From the stones. I have to write them down.”
“Can I do it with you?”
For a moment, Bod felt protective—the gravestones were his, weren’t they?—and then he realized how foolish he was being, and he thought that there were things that might be more fun done in the sunlight with a friend. He said, “Yes.”
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“But you aren’t dead, are you, Nobody Owens?”
“’Course not.”
“Well, you can’t stay here all your life. Can you? One day you’ll grow up and then you will have to go and live in the world outside.”
He shook his head. “It’s not safe for me out there.”
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Chapter 7
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“You want to know your name, boy, before I spill your blood on the stone?”
Bod felt the cold of the knife at his neck. And in that moment, Bod understood. Everything slowed. Everything came into focus. “I know my name,” he said. “I’m Nobody Owens. That’s who I am.”
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“Look, it’s okay. I dealt with them.”
Scarlett took a step away from him. She said, “You aren’t a person. People don’t behave like you. You’re as bad as he was. You’re a monster.”
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Bod said, “She was scared of me.”
“Yes.”
“But why? I saved her life. I’m not a bad person. And I’m just like her. I’m alive too.”
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Scarlett Amber Perkins Quotes in The Graveyard Book
The The Graveyard Book quotes below are all either spoken by Scarlett Amber Perkins or refer to Scarlett Amber Perkins. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
Quotes
“What are you doing now?”
“ABCs,” said Bod. “From the stones. I have to write them down.”
“Can I do it with you?”
For a moment, Bod felt protective—the gravestones were his, weren’t they?—and then he realized how foolish he was being, and he thought that there were things that might be more fun done in the sunlight with a friend. He said, “Yes.”
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“But you aren’t dead, are you, Nobody Owens?”
“’Course not.”
“Well, you can’t stay here all your life. Can you? One day you’ll grow up and then you will have to go and live in the world outside.”
He shook his head. “It’s not safe for me out there.”
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Chapter 7
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“You want to know your name, boy, before I spill your blood on the stone?”
Bod felt the cold of the knife at his neck. And in that moment, Bod understood. Everything slowed. Everything came into focus. “I know my name,” he said. “I’m Nobody Owens. That’s who I am.”
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“Look, it’s okay. I dealt with them.”
Scarlett took a step away from him. She said, “You aren’t a person. People don’t behave like you. You’re as bad as he was. You’re a monster.”
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Bod said, “She was scared of me.”
“Yes.”
“But why? I saved her life. I’m not a bad person. And I’m just like her. I’m alive too.”
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