Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Demimonde (2014)

Eva Green: Vanessa Ives

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Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein makes a joke about himself when Vanessa Ives comments] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I'm bloodless.

  Vanessa Ives : The essence of your appeal, Doctor.

• [first lines] 

  Girl Outside Church : [the little girl outside a church approaches Vanessa Ives]  Why didn't you go in? Don't you like churches?

  Vanessa Ives : Well, I suppose I do.

• [the little girl outside the church tells Vanessa Ives the dead never stay underground] 

  Girl Outside Church : We put Mother under the ground. But I don't think she'll stay there. They never stay, do they?

  Vanessa Ives : Where do they go?

  Girl Outside Church : You know.

  Vanessa Ives : Do I?

  Girl Outside Church : [as the little girl hesitates]  Of course you do. Heaven, silly. They go to Heaven. Unless they go to the other place.

• [Dorian Gray asks Vanessa Ives if she's interested in botany] 

  Dorian Gray : Have you an interest in botany?

  Vanessa Ives : All I really seem to know about plants is how to kill them.

  Dorian Gray : Then let me show you something extraordinary. I like to see one extraordinary thing every day.

• [Dorian Gray shows Vanessa Ives a bundle of deadly nightshade flowers] 

  Vanessa Ives : Mmm, it's beautiful.

  Dorian Gray : You can do better. Give me words.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa smells the flowers]  Delicate, subtle fragrance. Like a berry, but not a woodland thing. Not a thing of the forest, something... of the jungle.

  Dorian Gray : What does it say to you?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa continues smelling with her eyes closed]  Touch me. With your finger. Softly. My scent on your neck. Open your lips. Taste.

  Dorian Gray : [Vanessa opens her eyes as Dorian reveals the type of flowers they are]  Atropa Belladonna. Deadly nightshade.

• [Dorian Gray asks Vanessa Ives if it's the dark thing in a flower that's exciting] 

  Dorian Gray : It's the adder beneath the rose, isn't it? All of this. They can seem so exciting and luxurious, yet within, there's a dark thing waiting.

  Vanessa Ives : Things are so rarely what they seem.

  Dorian Gray : Which of us does not have our secrets, Miss Ives?

• [Dorian Gray shows Vanessa Ives the most rarest of all flowers, Rothschild's slipper] 

  Dorian Gray : Rothschild's slipper. The rarest orchid on Earth, and thus the most expensive. It's only found in one place, a particular mountain in Borneo. It can take up to 15 years to bloom. A lifetime for six perfect flowers.

  Vanessa Ives : How long will it bloom?

  Dorian Gray : A moment.

  Vanessa Ives : Is it poisonous?

  Dorian Gray : Like all beautiful things, I hope so.

• Vanessa Ives : Things are so rarely what they seem.

• Vanessa Ives : You have to give them names or they'll never come to life.