Pushing Daisies

Ned: Candy might be sweet, but it’s a traveling carnival blowing through town. Pie is home. People always come home.

Emerson: Oh no, see, this is how it all ends. Some weird guy comes in saying stuff that don’t make no sense. And by the time your head realizes “Hey, this weird guy makes no sense,” your guts are all over the window.

Emerson: The truth ain’t like puppies, a bunch of them running around, you pick your favorite. One truth… and it has come a knockin’.

Emerson: You ain’t lying. The only way you’re lying is if she asks the question, (in a girl voice like Chuck) “Hey, did you kill my father when you brought your mother back, which I didn’t know about because you never told me?”…. Don’t tell her.

Alfredo: As any non-traditional remedy salesman knows; resistance to the novel and the unconventional is marbled through this country like gristle. If I’m not cutting that gristle, I’m not doing my job.

Olive: It’s from the Pie Hole from across the street, as in “Shut your.” But one sweet whiff and people usually want to “Open their.”

Olive: Can I ask you a question? If you loved me….
Alfredo: Yes?
Olive: And we could never, ever, ever touch. Wouldn’t you eventually get over it and move on letting someone else have the slightest hope that you might move on to them?
Alfredo: If I loved you?
Olive: Yeah.
Alfredo: Then I would love you in any way I could. And if we could not touch, then I would draw strength from your beauty. And if I went blind, then I would fill my soul with the sound of your voice and the contents of your thoughts until the last spark of my love for you lit the shabby darkness of my dying mind.
Olive: Eh, forget it.

Olive: Wouldn’t it just rock and roll if liking someone meant they had to like you back? Of course that’d be a different universe and something else would probably suck.

Olive: There’s no alarm system. Got a credit card?
Chuck: Why? You know how to pick locks?
Olive: No. You’re gonna need to pay for the damages.

Narrator: The expression “Like a rat in a candy store,” though slightly less popular, is equally true.

Emerson: I mean it’s a broad generalization, but my guess is that an attractive man who makes pies for a living shouldn’t even spend a short amount of time in prison.

Emerson: So whoever killed Billy is walking around with nine fingers thinking they got away with murder.
Chuck: Mm-hmmm. Footloose and finger-free.

Ned: Chuck, I killed your father.

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