The Cut-Wife quotes from Penny Dreadful

Thee and me got nothing to talk about here. You want a salve for your heartache, I can give you that. You want herbs to ease the gout, I can give you that. You want to poison your baby brother, I can give you that and laugh while I do it. But if you think you are touched by the demon then you best walk out that door. Because what I can give you for that, is only knowledge you don't want, little girl!

[as she goes to her death] Now you watch yourself close, my Little Scorpion. And remember this I speak now, eh? When Lucifer fell, he did not fall alone. They will hunt you until the end of days. [she puts her hand over Vanessa's chest] Be true. [pause] My name is Joan Clayton.

Why you want to learn the art? [spreading out tarot cards]

Vanessa

To find out what I am.

And if the answer you don't like?

Vanessa

Better to know.

Not really. Look that them. What do they say to you?

Vanessa

[looks down at the cards] Nothing.

[hits Vanessa on the head] I said look at them.

They send their girls to me, but for this very service they despise me. So it is always for those who do for women. Old as I am, I know nothing. Why people in this world hate what is not them. Why they fear all they don't know. Why they hate themselves most of all - for being weak, for being old, for being everything altogether that is not godlike. Which of us can be that? Monsters all, are we not?

Vanessa

Some perhaps more than others.

Is that what you feel?

Vanessa

Yes.

Then it will be true, as long as you feel it so.