PENNY DREADFUL S1E01 - S01E04 SENTENCE STARTERS
β One smile and I say yes. β
β Do not be amazed at anything you see and don't hesitate. β
β You're a man with a bloody knife like everybody else out there, so stop putting on airs. β
β I will not bore myself with explanations you could not possibly understand. β
β Nature's rarely so neat. Nature abhors symmetry. β
β Do you believe there is a demimonde? A half-world between what we know and what we fear? A place in the shadows, rarely seen, but deeply felt. Do you believe that? β
βA wise man would walk away from this house and make a concerted effort to forget everything that occurred last night. β
β Should you be so unwise as to entertain the idea, we have continued use of a man of your skills. β
βΒ There's much we don't know and must discover. β
βΒ I've been a hired gun before. Doesn't suit me. There's no exaltation in killing for gold. β
βΒ We all have our curses, don't we? β
βΒ Could I be more charmed? No, I could not. β
βΒ Sorry, my dear, it's a bit ghoulish to the lay-person. β
βΒ And before I engage in professional matters, I feel it is vital to engage in social congress. Get to know the sort of people one is working with, you understand? β
βΒ I've long since learned that truth is mutable. β
βΒ You have the soul of a poet. β
βΒ You seem to be a freethinker who might imagine a world less constrained by what we think we know of as "truth." β
βΒ To save her, I would murder the world. β
βΒ Join me. With me, you will behold terrible wonders. β
βΒ Was I not responsible? But for my transgression, would any of this have occurred? β
βΒ We cannot unmake the past. We shall live with our guilt, you and I. β
βΒ My mother taught me many things. Among the most useful, is one must always have Shakespeare close to hand. β
βΒ Aren't you mysterious? β
βΒ Not much surprises me. β
βΒ There is always a way to make a living when you've a bit of flesh, isn't there? β
βΒ He's here. Unbutton the top of your dress. β
βΒ Man does not live only in the empirical world. We must seek the ephemeral or why live? β
βΒ You need all the help I can give you. β
βΒ When the next one occurs, I shall need to see the crime scene immediately. β
βΒ I've never fucked a dying creature before. Do you feel things more deeply, I wonder? β
βΒ As you grow up, you'll learn we all do things which cause us shame. β
βΒ Come along. Let's just stroll, see what wickedness we can find. β
βΒ You do not belong here. Even less than I. β
βΒ I believe we're about to commune with the spirits. β
βΒ You knew I was dyingβ¦ didn't you? β
βΒ I wonder when was the moment you knew you wanted to fuck her? β
βΒ You're not mistaking me for a sweet little debutante at the summer fair, are you? β
βΒ If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a bit ofβ¦ social awkwardness. β
βΒ After all, who wants to know they're hunted by the devil? β
βΒ When the poets write of death, it's invariably serene. I wonder if that's what it is really. This death, this ending of things. β
βΒ There are some things we're not meant to know. β
βΒ Did you imagine that I was dead? That I could die? You know better. β
βΒ I would seek you even unto the maelstrom of the blackest tempest of the darkest night. β
βΒ The first human action that I experienced was rejection. So do not wonder at my loathing of your species. β
βΒ Were you really so naive to imagine that we'd see eternity in a daffodil? β
βΒ You ran from me once. Never again. We are the Janus mask. Inseparable. β
βΒ What in the name of all the tender mercies happened to you? β
βΒ You know, occurs to me, given my total self-absorption, I never asked your name. β
βΒ What do you want of me? To suffer? You've done that. β
βΒ I'm sorry for the cruelty you've endured, that I inflicted upon you, but I cannot unmake the past! β
βΒ I'm not concerned with the past, only the future. β
βΒ Who has money for that? Not when there's eating to be done. β
βΒ I'll not waste your time. I'm looking for money. I'll work for it. β
βΒ I see things sometimes. I am affected by forces beyond our world. β
βΒ Don't torment me. β
βΒ In this life, there are hungers that compel us. Food, shelter, warmth, even poetry. But one thing stands titanic. Love. β
βΒ I can never love you. β
βΒ I do not seek your love! I do not seek what is not there. I would weep for you if ever I'd learned how. β
βΒ This you shall do. Or I will strike down all those you love and render your brightest dayβ¦ your darkest night. β
βΒ You seek to threaten me with death? If you seek to threaten me, threaten me with life. β
βΒ Do not test me. You have not known horror until I have shown it to you. β
βΒ There's something wrong here. What haven't you told me? β
βΒ Fear already? You will not survive long in this cruel old world. β
βΒ We here have been brutalized with loss. It has made us brutal in return. β
βΒ There is no going back from this moment. If we are to proceed, we proceed as one. Without hesitationβ¦ and with fealty to each other alone. β
βΒ Who doesn't love a lost cause? β
βΒ No one's ever accused me of being useful before. β
βΒ Things are so rarely what they seem. β
βΒ Which of us does not have our secrets? β
βΒ It's not an easy thing, this you ask of me. β
βΒ What a simple thing it is to snap your neck. You are so fragile, you mortals, such things of skin and air. β
βΒ The future belongs to the strong, to the immortal races, to me and my kind. β
βΒ I wonder what lips yours have kissed and where. β
βΒ We've all done things to survive. There are such sins at my back it would kill me to turn around. β
βΒ Get your best duds ready for tonight, we're going out. β
βΒ Remind me why we're doing this again. β
βΒ My, my. That temper of yours. β
βΒ Why must you always denigrate my work? β
βΒ Say it like that and you can get me to do anything. β
βΒ Don't you worry about me. Go on to your friends, now, won't you? β
βΒ It's a sad spectacle, why don't we just admit it? Thereβs no goddamn future in it for either of us. Who are we trying to fool? β
βΒ You ever wish you could be someone else? Just run away from your life? β
βΒ Once you get used to something, why bother? It's just repetition. β
βΒ Have the courage to face your own sin before you cite mine so easily. β
βΒ We'll carry on with this fight. We can lose every battle, except the last. β