Penny Dreadful (TV Series)
Demimonde (2014)
Eva Green: Vanessa Ives
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Quotes
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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?
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[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.
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Vanessa Ives : Things are so rarely what they seem.
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Vanessa Ives : You have to give them names or they'll never come to life.