Penny Dreadful2014

[the Cut-Wife introduces Vanessa to a book of evil]

Joan Clayton:
Truly, I don't know if your heart is good or bad. But I have to show you something. See that big book? With the glyph on the side. Bring it to me.

[Vanessa brings her the book]

Joan Clayton:
Of all the texts, of all the spells, this is the most cursed.

Vanessa Ives:
What is it?

Joan Clayton:
Forbidden. The Poetry of Death. If ever the day comes when my little scorpion is crushed and beaten, if her God deserts her completely, only then does she open it. And on that day she will never be the same. She will have gone away from God, forever.