Penny Dreadful Quotes
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
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
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.
Dracula: Who are you to defy me?
Vanessa: I am nothing. I am no more than a blade of grass. But I am. You think you know evil? Here it stands.
Vanessa: You think I'm a spoiled bitch?
Orderly: We're not to engage in conversation, miss.
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
You once said we name things so they don't frighten us. I'm not frightened. His name is Dracula.
Vanessa
Orderly: I'll tell you what happened. I was at home, yesterday night past. And I was helping my son with a wooden ship model. That's something we do. And he asked me about the ship. I said it was a kind of ship used for exploring the seas. And he said, "Where do they explore, father?" And I told him everywhere. The orient. Peru. And even the frozen north. And he says, "What's that, Father?" And so I told him. "It's the places all covered with snow. North of Scotland and even beyond that." And he said, "Do people live there?" And I said to him, "No, it's too cold and lonely all the time. No one lives there." And I started to cry and I couldn't stop. My son took my hand, and I couldn't stop crying.
Vanessa: Why?
Orderly: Because I realized I was wrong. One person does live there. Where it's cold and lonely all the time. So I tendered my resignation. I'll stay long enough to see you tomorrow. The last person you see before the surgery will be someone who loves you.
Before you speak another word, I ask you to consider this. How valuable is your life? Do you hold it dear? Does your wife value your company? Do you favor growing old, to teach your ugly, inbred children your grotesque manners? Lay hands on him and it'll be your end.
Sir Malcolm
Ethan. Has my utility not been amply demonstrated? Has my allegiance not been proved? I followed you across an ocean and across a continent. I will follow you to hell. I'll lead the way, Wolf of God.
Hecate
Dr. Seward: No, miss. So full of pain. All of which is true. You manifest it in any number of ways so you can make sense of it, but it's inexplicable. So the mind creates order around it: Phantoms, villains, demons, those things we understand and can name. But there is no name for it, Vanessa. It is a dark root without a name from which grows illness.
Vanessa: And delusion.
Dr. Seward: Yes.
Through your skin to your bones, crawling like the scorpion. Up. Reaching. You have a scar on the back of your neck. Blood. There are tram cars outside the window. A city. More blood. You were hurt by a man. He would have killed you... had you not killed him first. Such things have a name. They are witches. They are vampires. They are Lucifer. They are all those things which walk in your nightmares. Shall we walk together?
Vanessa
