Hugo Root quotes from Preacher

Hugo Root

El Paso Gazette. Young family in Indiana take their children to an amusement park. Three kids. They'd been there for about an hour, playing, having fun. Parents turned around, one of the kids is gone. The little one. The parents is frantic. So they leave the two older kids with this fella sellin' pretzels. And they go in search. About a half-hour, they found him. He was cryin' his eyes out over by the spinnin' teacups or some such. Well, the parents was ecstatic. They was full of "thank yous," "praise the Lords." Celebratory ice cream for everybody. However the other two kids took three days to find the one, naked, stuffed in a drainage ditch down by the interstate. And the hard part in this from a law-enforcement perspective was the old man. He worked in that park for 30 years sellin' pretzels. Never a single complaint or incident. That third baby, they never found at all. This world.

Hugo Root

Can't do it. I told them. You cannot just expunge a beloved cultural figure like that and not expect it to go over like shit on cold biscuit.

Jesse Custer

I imagine there's worse things that could happen.

Hugo Root

I just read the Japanese let a fellow marry his own pillow, I tend to agree with you. Much worse is on its way.

Jesse Custer

Pillows. That's a slippery slope.

Hugo Root

Regardless of the state of Custer's mental faculties, taking church land? With all due respect, that church is holy ground.

Odin Quincannon

No, Sheriff. That church is nothing more than wood and paint of bits of colored glass. It's a lie, and I'm going to tear it down peg by peg. Grind it into dust. "Holy ground," my ass.

Cassidy

I sort of lost my head there a bit. Crime of passion.

Hugo Root

Judging from this, you're a very passionate man, Mr. Cassidy.