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“There is a place where the malformed find grace, where the hideous can be beautiful, where strangeness is not shunned but celebrated. This place is the theater.”
— Vincent Brand, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Resurrection
Tagged: malformed, Grace, find, Hideous, Beautiful, Transformations, celebrated, Theater
“Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I cannot unmake the past!

The Creature: I'm not concerned with the past, only the future.”
— The Creature, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Resurrection
Tagged: Past, Future, Moving Forward, Cannot change the past
“I learned to stay in the shadows. To protect such a heart as this you gave me.”
— The Creature, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Resurrection
Tagged: Shadows, Abandoned, Learning, Protect Your Heart
“The ancient Egyptian religions were unique in a way. They had a singular goal. Not transmutation to an afterlife, but something even more profound: eternal life.”
— Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Seance
Tagged: Egyptians, Religion, unique, Eternal Life, Profound
“You do not belong here. Even less than I. You are not frivolous. Your eye is careful and appraising. This is not a careful room, although there is much to appraise. That can divert you for only so long. You do not like it here.”
— Dorian Gray, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Seance
Tagged: do not belong here, Careful, apprasing, do not like it
“Who is the child, Frankenstein? Thee or me?”
— The Creature, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Resurrection
Tagged: Child, Question, Immature
“Galsworthy: They're not for the fainthearted.

Sir Malcolm Murray: My heart has never fainted.”
— Sir Malcolm, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Seance
Tagged: heart, Strong, Brave, Not for the fainthearted
“Victor Frankenstein: I've only one other question: Why me?

Sir Malcolm Murray: Because you were unafraid to pull back the skin and look beneath.”
— Sir Malcolm, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Night Work
Tagged: Question, unafriad, pull back the skin, curious
“To save her, I would murder the world.”
— Sir Malcolm, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Night Work
Tagged: save, Love, Murder, World, Extreme Measures
“With me, you will behold terrible wonders.”
— Sir Malcolm, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Night Work
Tagged: behold, terrible, Wonders, Evil, Unreal
“What is love but a kind of creature waiting to be unbound? A malady. What does it bring any of us but... confusion and bedevilment?”
— Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful, Season 2: Little Scorpion
Tagged: Love, Personification Examples, Confusion, bedevilment
“You will not die while I'm here. You will not surrender while I live. If I have one goddamned purpose in my cursed life it's that.”
— Ethan Chandler, Penny Dreadful, Season 2: Little Scorpion
Tagged: Death, Surrender, Give Up, purpose, Life, Cursed
“We're most who we are. Unrestrained. Ourselves.”
— Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful, Season 2: Little Scorpion
Tagged: ourselves, unrestrained, individuals
“Your father loves you very much and would do anything to save you. But I love you in a different way. I love you enough to kill yo”
— Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Closer Than Sisters
Tagged: Love, Life, Death, save, Kill
“I tried to pray that night and God didn’t answer me, but another did.”
— Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Closer Than Sisters
Tagged: Pray, God, demon, answered
“Sir Malcolm Murray: She will cease to be who she is.

Ethan Chandler: Then I will love who she becomes.”
— Ethan Chandler, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: What Death Can Join Together
Tagged: Love, Becomes, cease to exisit
“Things are so rarely what they seem.”
— Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Demimonde
Tagged: Rarely, What they seem, unexpected
“Once you get used to something, why bother? It's just repetition.”
— Dorian Gray, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Demimonde
Tagged: used to something, Repetition, Why bother?
“Vanessa Ives: Is it poisonous?

Dorian Gray: Like all beautiful things, I hope so.”
— Dorian Gray, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Demimonde
Tagged: Beautiful, Posionious, I hope so
“When you transform a life, you're making it anew. Whatever happens to that creature downstairs, we are responsible for it. It is our burden now. Every action builds another link that binds us to it. That chain is everlasting.”
— Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Resurrection
Tagged: Transform, Life, anew, Rebirth, responsible, creature
“We here have been brutalized with loss. It has made us brutal in return. There is no going back from this moment.”
— Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Resurrection
Tagged: brutalized, Loss, Brutal, no going back
“You see, you're hunting for a man. You need to start hunting for a beast”
— Sir Malcolm, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Seance
Tagged: Hunting, Man, Beast
“Your hands want to touch, but your head wants to appraise. Your heart is torn between the two.”
— Dorian Gray, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Seance
Tagged: hand, heart, Touch, Torn, Head
“Man does not live only in the empirical. We must seek the ephemeral, or why live?”
— Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful, Season 1: Seance
Tagged: Life, Living, Empirical, ephemeral
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