Penny Dreadful Quotes
He had no goal beyond resurrection. At which he's excelled. Just the consequences wherein that escaped him. He created life but had no care for its nurturing. A young man's ambition to be known. Not to be good.
Mr. Clare [of Frankenstein]
My people are in London now. That man inside there -- that woman that I told you about -- my friends. That is my tribe.
Ethan
You may be done with Hell, but it is not done with you.
Kaetenay [to Ethan]
My doomed, keening women. Shall we be immortal? Shall we sing from the gallows, too? We must have the faith of those women, we must have their strength and commitment, we must be bloody or nothing else!
Lily
Jared Talbot: It is like looking in a mirror.
Sir Malcolm: We are not the same.
Kaetenay: To save my son, I would slaughter an entire army. And I would gladly give up my own life.
Sir Malcolm: Would he do the same for you?
Kaetenay: Ethan will kill me the first chance he gets.
Ethan Talbot is a scourge upon the earth. Whatever code I have followed, I hereby disavow. If given the chance, I will shoot him in the back and butcher all his kind.
Inspector Rusk
Ethan: What the fuck are you doing here?
Sir Malcolm: You never know where I'll turn up.
Hecate: This God that would anoint you lupus dei, that would make you a glorious monster and have you hate yourself for being so monstrous, he tortures you with guilt and in return offers you what?
Ethan: Forgiveness.
Hecate: Do you feel forgiven?
You will have no memory of this. None of this treatment, nor of your crimes, nor of your sins, nor of your time in this horrid place. Every moment that has benighted your life and set you on your dark course I will take from you. You will reenter this world an innocent lamb. After all, it is our memories which make us monsters, is it not?
Dr. Frankenstein
Hecate: I can call forth the creatures of the night. An army just beneath the surface of the sand. Shall I summon them to strike down our enemies? Shall we unleash demons, thee and me?
Ethan: Yes.
I didn't choose the master I serve. My mother enlisted me. She watched as Lucifer raked his claws across my body. You think you know pain? I was five years old. Something, isn't it? To be betrayed by the person who's supposed to protect you.
Hecate
