you think you know blood?

Vanessa: Save me some for breakfast. Good night. Ethan: Does she really eat dessert for breakfast? Sembene: Always.

This is what I am.

we defy them

vanessa ives + smiling

Be true. 

I’m so sorry. I’ve enjoyed every moment we’ve spent together, more than I thought I could, but it’s impossible.

“I want you to do something that you believe might make you happy, even for a moment.”

You’re unhappy. You’re isolated. You think you’re the cause of this unhappiness and are unworthy of affection so you’ve few friends. Recently you lost something you think very important. Your lover, your faith, your family, or all three. You blame yourself for this, so it makes you neurotic, and you don’t sleep and don’t eat, anything healthy anyway. You used to take care of your appearance, but you’ve lost interest in that, so you avoid mirrors. Sunlight bothers you, so you avoid that too, about which you’re guilty because you think it’s unhealthy and even immoral not to like the sun. You’re not a woman of convention or you wouldn’t be here, but you like to pretend you are so people don’t notice you. But you sometimes like that as well and can dress to draw the eye. But then you think the men who look at you are fools, or worse, to be taken in by such an obvious outward show. So instead, you’re drawn to dark, complicated, impossible men, assuring your own unhappiness and isolation because, after all, you’re happiest alone. But not even then, because you can’t stop thinking about what you’ve lost, again for which you blame yourself. So the cycle goes on, the snake eating its own tail.

costume appreciation: Vanessa Ives’ black and white dress with lace pattern from Penny Dreadful (costumes by Gabriella Pescucci)

All the broken and shunned creatures, someone got to take care of them.                                      Who shall it be if not us?

                                but both are promised to another. [x]

Ethanessa meme: [4/6] Scenes ↳ In 2x05 “Above the Vaulted Sky”