«I already know what’s wrong with you. You’re unhappy. You’re isolated. You think you’re the cause of this unhappiness and unworthy of affection so you have 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.»

«So the cycle goes on, the snake eating its own tail.»

Penny Dreadful.