He's Lord of the Pies.

Chuck

Well, that idea might make a stupid idea feel better about itself.

Emerson

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.

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

Ned

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

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.

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

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.

Alfredo

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

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

Narrator

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

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

Pushing Daisies Season 1 Episode 8 Quotes

I have no doubt you could make mince meat of us. If you wanted more mince meat.

Chuck

Chuck, I killed your father.

Ned