Vanessa Ives quotes from Penny Dreadful

Dracula

[while possessing the orderly] Give me your flesh. Give me your blood. Be my bride, and then all light will end and the world will be in darkness. The very air will be pestilence to mankind. And then our brethren, the night creatures, will emerge, and feed. Such is our power. Such is our kingdom. Such is my kiss.

Vanessa

[entranced] Yes.

Dracula

One kiss, and you're free of all this. In this mortal world, you'll always be shunned for your uniqueness, but not with me. They will lock you away in rooms like this. They'll brand you a freak and a sorceress, but I won't. I love you for who you are, Vanessa.

Vanessa

And what name do I whisper to you, beloved?

Dracula

I am the demon. I am the dragon. My name is Dracula!

Do you fence?

Vanessa

Alas, no.

Catriona

Oh, you should. It's wonderful for the mind. Every decision reduced to back and forth, thrust or parry. A clarity forms during it that the rest of the world is sadly lacking in. Life and death, without the death... most of the time.

Vanessa

You were very kind to me once, and I loved you for it. The man I knew deserved to be loved.

John Clare

And the man you see?

Vanessa

[smiles] No less.

Vanessa

I'm no witch. You know nothing of me.

Kaetenay

You are a great, fertile bitch of evil, and I love you for your fertility and your power. You are the woman of all our dreams and all our night terrors.

Dracula

We have been shunned in our time, Vanessa. The world turns away in horror - why? Because we're different. Ugly. Exceptional. We are the lonely night creatures, are we not? The bat, the fox, the spider, the rat...

Vanessa

The scorpion.

Dracula

The broken things.

Vanessa

The unloved.

Dracula

There's one monster who loves you for who you really are, and here he stands. I don't want to make you good, I don't want you to be normal. You don't need to be anything but who you truly are. You have tried for so long to be what everyone wants you to be, what you thought you ought to be, what your church and your family and your doctors said you must be. Why not be who you are instead?

Vanessa

Myself...

Dracula

You will never be alone again. I will love you until time has lost all meaning.

Vanessa

Yes...

Dracula

Do you accept me?

Vanessa

I accept... myself...

Vanessa

[voiceover] And then all light will end, and the world will live in darkness. The very air will be pestilence to mankind. And our brethren, the night creatures, will emerge and feed. Such is our power. Such is our kingdom. Such is my kiss.

Vanessa

What do you fear?

Dracula

I don't know what you mean.

Vanessa

I can smell it on you.

Dracula

He's coming - your Mr. Chandler. I have reason to fear him. He is foretold as my singular enemy.

Vanessa

Fear not all prophecies. We defy them. We make our own Heaven, and our own Hell. Let him come. He and I shall write the ending in blood, as it was always going to be.

Vanessa

Let it end. With a kiss.

Ethan

With a kiss. With love.

Vanessa

With love.

Vanessa

[dying] Oh Ethan! I see our Lord. [dies peacefully]