Pushing Daily Daisies

Aunt Vivian: Charlotte always wanted to get away. Got away further than any of us thought.
Narrator: In a rare moment of sensitivity, he reached out and touched her, not realizing she didn’t like being touched.

Season 1, Episode 1

Aunt Vivian: Cheese? I would recommend the pure goat with blue ash. It has a grassy flavor.
Emerson: It does have a grassy flavor.
Aunt Vivian: It’s delicious with Charlotte’s honey. You haven’t lived until you’ve tasted her honey. The homeless love it.

Season 1, Episode 1

Aunt Vivian: Charlotte was a nice girl.
Aunt Lily: With the exception of puberty.
Aunt Vivian: Which was unfortunately when Lily was going through her change of life.
Aunt Lily: Impolite to discuss a person’s menopause in mixed company.
Aunt Vivian: It nearly killed me.

Season 1, Episode 1

Narrator: Aunt Vivian and Aunt Lily were all Chuck had and before Chuck, all they had were each other. While still in their teens, they made a name for themselves as The Darling Mermaid Darlings. Many, many, many years later, still holding on to their fading glory as underwater artistes, their lives were changed forever when Lily, while cleaning the litter box, got dirty cat sand in her eye.
Lily: Oh, my!
Narrator: Not only did she lose her eye, but The Darling Mermaid Darlings lost their careers. They retreated behind a fence and made sure the world stayed on the other side.

Season 1, Episode 1

Narrator: She considered the life that was with Aunts Lily and Vivian. Their personality disorders blossomed into incapacitating social phobias which made it difficult for them to leave the house. Which, in turn, made it difficult for Chuck to leave them. She served her community by harvesting honey for the homeless. She never strayed far from home. She read about people she could never be on adventures she would never have. Life was good enough until one day, it wasn’t.

Season 1, Episode 1

Narrator: For the Pie-Maker and a dead girl named Chuck, their shared life event began with a touch and became the promise of a new family brought about by the words:
Chuck: I’m alive.

Season 2, Episode 13

Chuck: Lily? Vivian?
Narrator: In that moment, time stopped as it is wont to do when present, past, and future collide. When one’s existence ceases to be measured in days, hours, and minutes, but instead in the immeasurable quantity of life events. For Lily and Vivian Charles, the reappearance of a daughter and niece was a life event that would eventually overshadow a 30-ear-old betrayal and result in a splash of water, the roar of the crowd, and a whirlwind tour around the world. Twice.

Season 2, Episode 13

Aunt Lily: You know, I have spent half a lifetime trying to make amends. I gave up the only man I have ever loved as well as my beautiful baby daughter because I knew the truth would break your heart. So, I broke mine instead. I did what I’ve done since the day you were born: Chose your happiness over mine.

Season 2, Episode 13