QUOTE : Silence is kind of awkward, don’t you think?” he said.<br /><br />Oh. Or not. “No. I’m okay with silence. We’re in a library after all. This is the birthplace of silence.”<br /><br />“The library is the birthplace of silence?” David asked.<br /><br />“All the words are being used by the books. When I was little, that’s what I used to think. That people were told to be quiet so that all their words didn’t get stolen by the books. I thought books needed words to exist. Well, obviously they do, but I thought they needed spoken words. Yeah … I was always weird.”<br /><br />“And here I thought libraries were quiet because people were trying to study,” David whispered.<br /><br />“That might be another explanation.