Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Memento Mori (2015)

Rory Kinnear: John Clare

Quotes 

• [Mr. Clare tells Lily the two of them can be together as lovers] 

  Lily : You want to walk in the village and hold my hand. And when people are cruel, you want me to love you even more. Do I hurt you?

  Lily : [Lily scoffs]  You pathetic creature. How can you imagine that I could care for you? Does that face belong alongside this? Doesn't the world smile on us? Don't we make a beautiful couple, 'thee and me'? Shall we wander the pasture and recite your fucking poetry to the fucking cows. You are blind... like all other men.

  John Clare : And you are unlike all other women.

  Lily : [Lily pushes Mr. Clare back to the wall]  You tell me how. We flatter our men with our pain. We bow before them. We make ourselves into dolls for their amusement. We lose our dignity in corsets and high shoes and gossip and the slavery of marriage! And our reward for this service? The back of the hand... The face turned to the pillow... The bloody, aching cunt as you force us onto your beds to take your fat, heaving bodies!

  Lily : [Lily screams while punching Mr. Clare's chest]  You drag us into the alleys, my lad, and cram yourselves into our mouths for two bob. When you're not beating us senseless! When we're not bloody, from the eyes, and the mouth, and the ass, and the cunt!

  Lily : [Lily throws Mr. Clare to the floor as the two pant]  Never again... will I kneel to any man. Now they shall kneel to me. As you do, monster.

• [Mr. Clare lays on the floor trembling at the strength and anger of Lily] 

  Lily : My monster. My beautiful corpse. How clever he's been, our creator. But our little god... has brought forth not angels... but demons. Thee and me. And what should we do with this power, undead thing? You're a thoughtful man, a philosopher even. So tell me, why do we exist? Why have we been chosen? Tell me.

  John Clare : I don't know.

  Lily : Is it to suffer?

  John Clare : Yes.

  Lily : Must it be?

  John Clare : How can it be other? We long for that we cannot have.

  Lily : Women? I'll bring you a dozen. We'll fuck 'em together.

• [Mr. Clare threatens Victor Frankenstein after Victor let's Lily go out for the night with another man] 

  John Clare : You made her for me. She is mine. She is not yours. She is not his. She is mine. I will take her. And when we are gone, far away from this place to a place for she and me alone, I will return... Creator. I will return to you. One day... one night... I will show you the monster you have made.