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Endless list of tv series: Penny Dreadful

“I have stood at the very edge. I have looked into the abyss. If I’d have taken one more step, I would have fallen. But no matter how far I ran away from God, he was still waiting ahead.”

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It’s a way to exteriorize all my shit. To scream and cry and laugh on-screen, it’s almost like black magic. You can do anything. I’m a dreamer, so that’s a good job for me. Onstage is the only place I can fully express myself.

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Do you believe in fate? I don’t mean justice. I mean retribution. Facing the consequences of your actions that have produced catastrophe. A sin that is everlasting, one that you have made immortal.

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and you’ll sing not of dying, but living. wouldn’t that be nice?

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vanessa ives was one of the most beautiful, brilliant, truly wonderful characters i’ve ever seen on tv. she was strong, vulnerable, powerful, soft, and so deeply and incredibly complex. eva green has done absolute wonders, and without eva or vanessa, penny dreadful would never have been what it is. this is to an amazing character and her amazing actress. vanessa is a character i relate to on a level that is, to be honest, shocking. she is so relatable; there is a vanessa in every one of us, especially those that are disadvantaged in some way, that suffer from mental illness, that feel themselves unlovable and unworthy of the good things in life. she spoke to me in every episode. i have so much love for her and for eva. honestly, eva deserves every award there is. i’m not sure i’ll ever be able to accept vanessa’s death, however.

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“We both should. We have been unhappy long enough.”                                                                                                                                            “Then let us dare.”

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“Through your skin to your bones crawling like the scorpion up, reaching. You have a scar on the back of your neck. Blood! There are tram cars outside the window. A city! More blood! You were hurt by a man. He would have killed you, Had you not killed him first.”                                                                                                                                                                              “Do you believe me?”

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I’ll tell you what happened. I was at home, yesterday night past. And I was helping my son with a wooden ship model. That’s something we do. And he asked me about the ship. I said it was the kind of ship used for exploring the seas. And he said, “Where do they explore, Father?” And I told him, “Everywhere. The Orient, Peru, and even the frozen North.” And he says, “What’s that, Father?” And so I told him it was the places all covered with snow. North of Scotland and even beyond that. And he said, “Do people live there?” And I said, “No. It’s too cold and lonely all the time. No one lives there.”

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But before we say another word, you must look into your heart and you must answer me a question. Just one. If you have been touched by the demon, it’s like being touched by the back hand of God. Makes you sacred in a way, doesn’t it? Makes you unique, with a kind of glory. The glory of suffering, even. Now, here’s my question. Do you really want to be normal?

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If you credit my story…

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“Have you sinned?”                                                                                                                                     “Everyone has sinned.”

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† vanessa ives aesthetic †

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Vanessa quotes from Alfred Tennyson’s “Maud, Locksley Hall, and Other Poems.”