- Kiki: Everyone just settle, and listen!
- Sam: Um, what are we listening for?
- Kiki: Silence. Total silence.
- Gary: That's impossible. Absolute silence doesn't exist.
- Sam: Yeah, there's always something making noise.
- Kiki: Exactly, so when grown-ups say they want it quiet, there's no way, because there's no such thing.
- Kiki: What if there could be total silence? What if you could stop every sound, every buzz, every breath?
- Gary: You couldn't, where there's life there's sound.
- Kiki: Say that another way. You take away sound, and you take away, life! Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story The Tale of the Quiet Librarian.
- Laurie Napier: [in the library basement at night] Where'd you leave it?
- Jace Ellman: Over there, I think. But everything's different.
- Laurie Napier: What do you mean?
- Jace Ellman: It wasn't like this yesterday. There were a lot more books. And THAT room wasn't there.
- Laurie Napier: [sees a calendar on the wall] Look at this. 1910.
- Jace Ellman: That's got to be some phony antique.
- Laurie Napier: What're you looking for?
- [Jace mimes telephone]
- Laurie Napier: The phone!
- [looks around]
- Laurie Napier: They're gone! The fire alarm, it's gone too! Everything modern is gone! Jace, what is going on?
- Quiet Librarian: [voice comes through the door] Silence is golden.