[Not exactly negative. But perhaps a little odd. Becoming part of a secrative organization at the age of ...somewhere around 3 or 4 or even younger]
It does.
[And there is a flicker of something that might be a smile as he opens up the notebook/common place book besides him and reads]
"If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good."
no subject
It does.
[And there is a flicker of something that might be a smile as he opens up the notebook/common place book besides him and reads]
"If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good."