Penny Dreadful Quotes
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
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
I adore all the honest creatures of this world. It's humans I hate.
Hecate
Do you know what they are, all of them? A broken thing. Not a tiger. Not a flower. Not a clump of earth. Not even a blade of grass. Miss Ives, you have to get better.
Orderly
But you're not a thing of the spirit, Vanessa. You're a thing of the flesh. Like me. You're the wolf. You're the scorpion. You're all those things that slip and soar and stalk through the deep forest in the dark night. You're powerful. You feel it coiling within you. Become the wolf and the bat and the scorpion. Be truly who you are.
Dracula
Orderly: It's not torture, what they're doing. It's science. It's meant to make you better.
Vanessa: It's meant to make me normal. Like all the other women you know. Compliant. Obedient. A cog in an intricate social machine. No more.
Vanessa: What name do I whisper to you, beloved?
Dracula: I am the demon. I am the dragon. My name is Dracula.
And I do believe what you said about Lucifer. After all, I was there. Oh, my dear. We have so much to catch up on, do we not?
Orderly/Lucifer
I have been touched by Satan. My weakness allowed it. My faith was not strong enough and Lucifer came to me. I didn't fight him strongly enough. I don't know that I fought him at all.
Vanessa
You once said we name things so they don't frighten us. I'm not frightened. His name is Dracula.
Vanessa
I would leave this place, but I need the work. Jobs are scarce, and I have to feed the family, you understand? And I wouldn't leave you, in any case. Not until you're better. And maybe we'll walk out of here together. Wouldn't that be a day?
Orderly
This is who you are. Please don't forget that.
Orderly
