Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Oliver

Are you OK?

Felicity

I guess. Old lovers have a way of opening old wounds. Lovers. Sounds creepy no matter how you say it.

Oliver

Felicity, I want you to know that whatever experiences you had to go through, I'm glad that you did to shape the person that you are today. And you know how I feel about her.

Roy

That guy? He said I was just another weapon in your arsenal.

Oliver

Well, maybe that's what we should call you, then. Arsenal.

Oliver

When I said I wouldn't train you, I was trying to protect you. But a homicidal former vigilante apprentice was not what I had in mind.

Laurel

I know you're trying to protect me, Ollie, but I'm not helpless.

Oliver

I've never seen you that way. But Laurel, I'm always gonna watch out for you. And it's not because I think you're helpless, it's because I care about you.

[puts down Oliver's laundry] I'm not your mother or your wife or your maid.

Oliver

OK. Alright. You don't like me. I get it.

At least you're perceptive.

Oliver

I thought that, last week, the whole candle-meditation thing and maybe we had a moment.

Moment's over. You can celebrate by doing your own laundry. [...] What?

Oliver

I don't know how.

Oliver

To do what I do, Barry, takes conviction. But more often than not is the will to do what's ugly. Every time I do that, I'm... I'm trading away little pieces of myself. So you asked what's wrong with me. That's... That's what's wrong. Because the part that I'm trading away is Oliver Queen. And lately I've been feeling like there is nothing left. Except the Arrow.

Barry

I think you're full of crap. Look, you've convinced yourself that everything you've been through took away your humanity. But I think it's because of your humanity that you made it through. You wouldn't have survived, much less come out the other end a hero, somebody who wants to do good, if you didn't have a light inside of you.

Lyla

There are people in the world who deal only in extremes...

Oliver

And it would be naive to think that anything less than extreme measures will stop them.

Lyla

Sometimes bravery isn't enough. Sometimes the world requires us to be bold.

Oliver

Whatever the personal cost.

You're just a boy. Well, Mr. Queen, you failed to protect the city you love. Now you will watch it bleed.

Oliver

Nobody in my city will die tonight.

Well, there was only one way to prevent that. You were to produce for me the one who killed Ta-Er Al-Sahfer. And yet you've come alone.

Oliver

Because it was me. I killed Sara.

Nyssa

Why would you kill a woman you once professed to love?

Oliver

Because she begged me to.

Nyssa

You lie.

Oliver

It wasn't the first time Sara chose death over a life in the league. And meeting you now, I can see why.

I should have Sarab cleave your head off your shoulders. Not for killing my daughter's beloved, but for thinking me a fool.

Oliver

By league law, I have the right to challenge you to a trial by combat.

It's been 67 years since a man challenged me. You covet death that much?

Oliver

Do you accept?

Oh, yes.

Oliver

Maseo...

Maseo Yamashiro

My name is Sarab.

Oliver

You told me once a man cannot live by two names.

Maseo

And I don't. Maseo is dead. I am all that's left, Sarab. A phantom.

Oliver

After it happened, you went to Nanda Parbat.

Maseo

I arrived the same year as Ta-Er Al-Sahfer. She was a great warrior. You did not kill her. When you face the demon, it will be my duty to bear witness. I have no desire to watch you die. Under our code, you have 12 hours to settle your affairs. The 13th hour, be at this place. This location is consecrated ground for the league. A place for the settlement of blood debts - if one survives the climb. If you do.

Oliver

See you on the mountain.

Felicity

But there is one thing I need to ask you to do. And you're not going to want to.

Oliver

Well, if it's you asking, I'll do it.

Felicity

Kill him. You have to kill Ra's al Ghul. This is a duel... Oliver, with one of the most dangerous men that has ever walked the Earth.

Oliver

I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think I can win.

Felicity

I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that you can beat him. I am terrified that you won't kill him. Because that's not who you are anymore. And I am so afraid that Ra's al Ghul will use your humanity against you.

Oliver

Felicity, I honestly don't know if I'm a killer anymore. But I do know two things - the first is that whoever I am, I am someone who will do whatever - whatever - it takes to save my sister.

Felicity

And the second thing?

Oliver

I love you.

I was 11 years old when I killed my first man. I remember the look in his face when the light went out behind his eyes. Such a sudden change, almost imperceptible, between life and death. And I felt ashamed. I had stolen from that man the most precious gift of all - life. But I also felt something else - pride, because I had taken up arms against someone who sought to do ill against my family. And I realized what I had done was necessary. You see... I had replaced evil with death. And that... is what the League exists to do. And I have killed several thousand more men since then. And the world is better for it.

Oliver

You've taken your last life.

No. . . . You have lived your last day.

Oliver

I'm sorry...

Felicity

For what? Maybe you could be a little more specific: Letting us think you were dead? For weeks? Or by abandoning every principle you claimed to have by getting into bed with Malcom Merlyn?

Oliver

That's not what has you upset.

Felicity

When you were gone... for almost a month... I allowed myself to fantasize. To dream that maybe, just maybe... Merlyn was wrong. That you were alive. That you'd come back.

Oliver

Things between us, you mean.

Felicity

Before you left, the last thing you said was that you loved me. Now you're back... And the first thing you tell me is that you're working with the man who turned your sister... who you're supposed to love... into a killer, who killed a woman you used to love. I don't want to be a woman you love.

Laurel

I know what you're going to say, but I risked myself for this city while you were gone. That should earn me some respect.

Oliver

This isn't about respect. And it's not about you risking your life. I understand that you miss Sara. And I understand when you go out there like this, all of that pain goes away.

Laurel

It's the only time it ever does.

Oliver

And that relief isn't real. It's a drug.

Laurel

If you're implying...

Oliver

You an addict. And just like booze and pills, that high you're chasing every night is endangering your life.

Laurel

Go to hell, Oliver. You don't get to play that card with me. Ever. And if there is anyone who is using adrenaline to hide the pain of real feelings and real life, it's you.

Roy

You think you're the only person who can stand up for Thea?

Oliver

I'm trying to figure out why you're standing up to me!

Diggle

Alright. Maybe we just need to throttle back.

Felicity

No! We need this. Oliver, you were gone, dead, at least we thought you were, and we had to go on with our lives and doing that meant not doing things your way.

Oliver

Fine. I'm back now!

Felicity

That doesn't mean we can go back! And you do not have the right to come back here and question everyone's choices.

Diggle

No, you weren't gone. You were dead and all of us, including me; we were ready to hang it up.

Oliver

Why didn't you?

Diggle

Because we realized we weren't just fighting for you, we were fighting for ourselves. That includes Roy and, yes, that includes Laurel.

Oliver

She's not a soldier.

Diggle

Neither were you.

Oliver

It's not the same thing and you know that.

Diggle

What I know, Oliver, is that you started something, something strong enough to live on past you. Question is, can you live with what it's become?

Thea

You smell like smoke. Korean barbecue?

Oliver

C4. Yeah.