Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places (2015)

Tamsin Topolski: Lavinia Putney

Quotes 

• [the blind Lavinia Putney talks to Mr. Clare about the aging of a wax figure] 

  Lavinia Putney : Aging them is easy. Everyone knows you have to add wrinkles and sagging skin and such. But the trick... is the eyes. They get cloudy as they get older. You have to change the eyes.

• [Lavinia Putney talks to Mr. Clare about the wax figures she creates for her father] 

  Lavinia Putney : Father's murderers. All those figures screaming in his new crime scenes. Oh, Mr. Clare... it hurts me to create them. Like I'm bringing them to life and then torturing them. Like some sort of terrible African voodoo doll. They're all fresh when they come out the molds... and then I make them suffer.

  John Clare : Some people think that's what life is. Born fresh to suffer.

  Lavinia Putney : Do you think that?

  John Clare : Uh... I did. Now I'm not sure.

  Lavinia Putney : There's hope for you anyway. Don't give up on life just yet.

• [Lavinia Putney attempts to guess Mr. Clare's eye color while working on a wax figure's eyes] 

  Lavinia Putney : What color are they? No, let me guess.

  John Clare : Miss...

  Lavinia Putney : Blue? No, you're no blue-eyed boy. No green, I sense. I'll say brown. Feathery brown like an owl's wing.

  John Clare : No, not brown.

  Lavinia Putney : Well, tell me.

  John Clare : They're... yellow.

  Lavinia Putney : Well, that makes a change! Not a lemon yellow, I hope. That would be alarming. More of a turmeric, would you say?

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare smiles]  Yes.