Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

What Death Can Join Together (2014)

Eva Green: Vanessa Ives

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• Vanessa Ives : Don't ask permission. If you want to do something do it, because it is your desire, not my allowance. You must risk rejection.

• Vanessa Ives : I think Mr Gray, there are tremors around us, like the vibrations of a note of music - hidden music. Some may be more attuned to them than others, what do those people do? Those who have been chosen.

  Dorian Gray : They endure uniqueness.

  Vanessa Ives : To be alien, to be disenfranchised from those around you, is that not a dreadful curse?

  Dorian Gray : To be different, to be powerful, is that not a divine gift?

  Vanessa Ives : To be alone?

  Dorian Gray : To be seeking.

  Vanessa Ives : What?

  Dorian Gray : Another.

  Vanessa Ives : Like you?

  Dorian Gray : Who shares your rarity.

  Vanessa Ives : Then you are no longer unique.

  Dorian Gray : Nor are you alone.

• Dorian Gray : You have exceptional composure.

  Vanessa Ives : Do I?

  Dorian Gray : Poise, I mean.

  Vanessa Ives : Control.

  Dorian Gray : Yes. What if you were to abandon it?

  Vanessa Ives : I couldn't.

  Dorian Gray : Why?

  Vanessa Ives : There are things within a soul that can never be unleashed.

  Dorian Gray : What would happen if they were?

  Vanessa Ives : They would consume us. We would cease to be, and another would exist in our place, without control, without limits.

• Vanessa Ives : To be beautiful is to be almost dead.