Doctor Helen Magnus quotes from Sanctuary

Nikola Tesla

Helen Magnus. Kiss me and I’ll save your life.

Helen Magnus

And if I don’t?

Nikola Tesla

[scoffs] It’s been over sixty years, just plant one on me already, will you?

Helen Magnus

Nikola Tesla. You always did know how to get attention.

Nikola Tesla

And you’re still boring as ever when it comes to giving a lecture. But to business: Cabal agents are all over the building. If we don’t leave now, things are going to get...rather bullet-ridden.

Nikola Tesla

This is fun, isn’t it? Just like old times, back in London? When was that, forty-two? Forty-three?

Helen Magnus

I prefer not to think about it.

Nikola Tesla

Come on, Helen. Every major spy agency in the world was looking for me. I needed your help. And besides, what’s a faked death among friends?

Helen Magnus

Whose hare-brained notion was it to supply every allied government with plans for your death ray weapon?

Nikola Tesla

Well, I thought they’d all share and that peace would break out. I did. I had my Nobel speech all memorized.

Nikola Tesla

Well, I did die a lonely, impoverished, pitiful old man. Thanks for the funeral, by the way. I heard it was quite nice.

Helen Magnus

I faked your death to save your life, so that your work could continue. I think I’m owed an explanation as to your whereabouts since then.

Nikola Tesla

Hey, perfecting the use of electricity and radio waves? Hard acts to follow, okay?

Helen Magnus

Why would the Cabal see you as a threat?

Nikola Tesla

I’m a vampire. Some people are threatened by that.

Nikola Tesla

When vampires ruled the earth, it was a golden age. Science, art, architecture, all advanced. And after they killed them off what happened?

Helen Magnus

The Dark Ages.

Nikola Tesla

And now everybody thinks that we're allergic to garlic and we can turn into bats at will. It's beyond insulting.

Helen Magnus

You’ve always been like this, haven’t you? Selfish and arrogant, putting your own desires before everyone else’s.

Nikola Tesla

I brought you here for two reasons: Because only you can help me finish what I’m working on and because I love you.

Helen Magnus

Yes, so you keep... what?

Helen Magnus

We’re going to have to fight our way out of here. No killing.

Nikola Tesla

Said the woman with the gun to the vampire.

Helen Magnus

Guess I can tell you that, at Oxford? No one liked you.

Nikola Tesla

Aw. Was it because I was a genius?

Helen Magnus

No. Because you were an obnoxious ass.

Nikola Tesla

Well, look who's still standing.

Ashley Magnus

[about Druitt] He’s my father, isn’t he?

Helen Magnus

[quietly] Yes. He is.

Helen Magnus

Never shown you Rome, have I?

Ashley Magnus

There was never time.

Helen Magnus

I have a lot to make up for. [holds her hand out to her daughter] Shall we?

Helen Magnus

I'm reminded of Hieronymus Bosch. His paintings were rife with abnormals.

Will Zimmerman

Was Bosch a friend of yours; high school sweetheart or something?

Helen Magnus

There is such a thing as "before my time."

Will Zimmerman

Really?

Helen Magnus

Cheeky monkey.

Helen Magnus

Imagine a caterpillar arresting its metamorphosis before it becomes a butterfly.

Henry Foss

You really think it was a butterfly that brought down that snake creature?

Henry Foss

I guess I thought about some butterflies. Wow, I can't believe I just said that.

Helen Magnus

Neither can I. Doesn't sound like you.

Henry Foss

I guess you can say I'm a changed man.

Will Zimmerman

The people that you've met, the history that you've witnessed, how do you relate to anybody? Dinner parties must be hell.

Helen Magnus

History is just that, Will; it's history. We've all experienced it. I just have more under my belt than most people.

Helen Magnus

Kraken? Please, that's a complete myth.

Will Zimmerman

Glad I didn't say 'sharktopus'.

Will Zimmerman

You invite questions, and then when you don't like where they lead, you just walk away.

Helen Magnus

That's hardly fair.

Will Zimmerman

You just called me "Dr. Zimmerman" and left the room.