Penny Dreadful Sentences, Condensed
(Sentences from Penny Dreadful (2014-2016). Adjust phrasing where needed)
"A wise man would walk away from this house and make a concerted effort to forget everything that occurred last night."
"There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration: piercing the tissue that separates life from death."
"Join me. With me, you will behold terrible wonders."
"We cannot unmake the past. We shall live with our guilt, you and I."
"You're hunting for a man, but you need to start hunting for a beast."
"As you grow up, you'll learn we all do things which cause us shame.
"If one is to engage with the primordial forces of darkness, one must expect a bit of social awkwardness."
"When the poets write of death, it's invariably serene. I wonder if that's what it is really."
"We've all done things to survive. There are such sins on my back it would kill me to turn around."
"Do you ever wish you could be someone else? Just run away from your life?"
"Do not weep. It brings no solace."
"When you asked for my company this afternoon, I did not expect this."
"You never change - except, of course, in every way that matters."
"You think you're going to be a hero? You are not. None of us are."
"This is worse than I knew it was going to be."
"Don't think I can't look into your wretched black heart and see the machinations laid bare!"
"All sad people like poetry."
"Do you think I don't understand what it is to be different?"
"Do you ever think what it would be like to be like other people? Normal people?"
"You'll never get your soul back. Not ever. Do you understand that?"
"True evil is, above all things, seductive."
"Do your ambitions not exceed this?"
"I've tasted success, and it's a meal I now wish to devour."
"How many scattered corpses will you leave in your bloody wake before your life has run its course?"
"You offer me a normal life. Why do you think I want that anymore?"
"You can't die until you've served your purpose."
"I'm not the man you knew. There's blood on my teeth, and in my soul, I think."
"Before you speak another word, I ask you to consider this: how valuable is your life?"
"I want to liberate your truest self: the beast that prowls around your heart."
"In this mortal world, you'll always be shunned for your uniqueness - but not with me."
"You have no sense of the terrors I will bring onto you."
"I've suffered long and hard to be who I am. I want my scars to show."
"If we're to continue, you must know how dangerous this is. How dangerous I am."
"I love you for who you are, not who the world wants you to be."
"The sun shall never shine so bright for me now I have walked in darkness. I cannot be the man I was."
"You think you're bold? You think you know sin? You're still learning the language. I wrote the bloody book!"
"I am, as you know, no stranger to killing."
"I don't want to make you good. I don't want you to be normal. I don't want you to be anything but who you truly are."
"You have tried for so long to be who everyone wants you to be - who you thought you ought to be. Why not be who you are instead?"
"It is too easy being a monster. Better to try to be human."
"Do you not yet comprehend the wicked secret of the immortal?"