There's Something I Want You to Do Quotes

“I have to let her remain here if she wants to. She's wreckage. It's as simple as that. We have these obligations to our human ruins.”
― Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do

“He had a particularly deliberate way of speaking that made him sound as if he had thought up his sentences several minutes ago and was only now getting around to saying them.”
― Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do

“So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another,”
― Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do

“All that caring about what happens next.' He waited. 'Now nothing happens next.”
― Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do

“Do you read, Mr. Quinn?” he asked. “Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist.”
― Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do