Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Maseo

What were you thinking? Anyone at that party could have seen you!

Oliver

Yeah, I pulled the hoodie down to cover my face.

Maseo

That disguise wouldn't work even if you smeared grease paint all over your face.

Slade

Come on, then. You've earned it.

Oliver

Thea, don't!

Thea

He killed Mom!

Oliver

And he will continue to pay for his crimes, but not like this! You're a not a killer!

Thea

Yeah, tell that to Sara!

Oliver

What happened to Sara is not on you! What happens to him is! All this is what Malcolm wanted. He freed Slade to prove we're killers because he wants you to be just like him. You got to prove to him that you're not

Slade

She's lost, your sister.

Oliver

No, she's not.

Slade

You can see it in her eyes. She's been touched by darkness. Was it Merlyn? He's an interesting man to do that to his own daughter. So now you've lost your father, your mother, and now your little sister. How's the girl with glasses? What's her name? Felicity. How many people can Oliver Queen lose before there is no more Oliver Queen?

Roy

Look, I may not agree with it, but I understand what you're trying to say. You don't want Thea to live with the guilt of getting her own father killed. But how is getting her brother killed any better?

Oliver

I don't plan on dying.

Felicity

That's what you said the last time you went to go face Ra's, and how did that turn out for you?

You tasted death, and you wanted more, but the truth is everyone and everything must come to an end. Even for one such as me.

Oliver

Kill me, but spare John Diggle's life. Let him go. I will beg for it.

You have shown tremendous strength, fortitude, power. No, Mr. Queen, I do not want to kill you. I want you take my place. I want you to become the next Ra's al Ghul.

Ra's is a title greater than one man. Wing Ta Leo Wo Chey.

Oliver

Am I supposed to understand what that means?

No. It is from a dialect no longer spoken. Said to me by a man whose place I took. Contemplating the same offer. And what it means is: "A tale to be told begins thus".

Surely men have branded you a murderer, a torturer. But see, I would never shame you with such bluntness. Because I see it in your eyes. The struggle you have with your dual identity. Oliver Queen and the Arrow. Neither are giving you what you crave.

Oliver

But becoming Ra's al Ghul will?

Oliver Queen is a man destined to be alone. He loves a woman he knows he cannot have.

Oliver

You don't know me.

But I know the Arrow. Al Sah-him. You will never be anything more than a vigilante for those whose lives you save at the risk of your own. And the city will turn on you, and your closest allies within the police department will call you a criminal. You will be scorned and hunted, and then killed. Dying as you began your crusade. Alone.

Diggle

You want to tell me what's going on now?

Oliver

Ra's predicted this. He said the city would turn against me and I would die alone. And when we come back, the first thing that happens is Lance shutting me out, and... I see Felicity with Palmer. It's like he looked into my future.

Diggle

Sounds to me like Ra's is playing with your head. Question is, why are you letting him?

Oliver

He wants me to take his place in the League of Assassins. That's why he let us go. As a sign of good faith.

Diggle

Is there even a world where he can imagine you saying yes?

Oliver

He said I can do more as the new Ra's than I can ever do as Oliver Queen or the Arrow. That I would have unlimited resources. That I could make a difference, not just a dent.

Diggle

You're not really considering this. Just because Captain Lance is angry and Felicity is momentarily unavailable?

Oliver

It's more than that. I just... John, tell me honestly... What have we accomplished?

Diggle

[sighs] Oliver...

Oliver

All the people that we put away, John, they got out. The city is no better off. The Arrow is not... is not making a difference. And if I just can't be me... and the Arrow isn't enough...

Diggle

Oliver...

Oliver

Then maybe I should be Ra's al Ghul.

Oliver

We went up against a new crew last night. One of them had his lips sewn shut.

Felicity

Is that a real thing?

Oliver

Apparently.

Felicity

Ugh. If only I had known I had that option.

Felicity

[whistles] Nice work.

Oliver

Not without a few casualties, but Amar is in custody.

Felicity

So that's a "no" on the whole victory dance thing, then?

Oliver

You know me. I don't dance. But I do occasionally say... thank you.

Felicity

You're welcome.

Oliver

And you were right.

Felicity

Ah, a "thank you" and a "you were right." I should really be recording this.

Felicity

Last year, Ray's fiancée was killed by Mirakuru men. And now he wants to protect the city, so he built a suit out of military-grade technology and he wants to put you in jail, so he used my software to track you down, and he scanned you with his x-rays and now he knows you're the Arrow and he's going to tell the cops.

Oliver

Palmer knows I'm the Arrow? And he has his own mission to protect the city? When were you going to tell me this?

Felicity

I have been getting that a lot today. Look, it's not important. Here's what is - he's going to tell the police who you are!

Roy

Wait, Ray built a super suit? That's kind of awesome. [Oliver glares at him] And reckless.

Ray

Arrow.

Oliver

Super Suit.

Ray

I prefer "The Atom."

Oliver

How's Ray?

Felicity

So much better than you right now. Please tell me you have a brilliant plan.

Oliver

I don't even have a regular plan.

Quentin

Lian Yu.

Oliver

What about it?

Quentin

This, uh, Ra's character, he told me that Sara made it to the island with you. You didn't feel like sharing that with me? Huh? I mean, I'm only her father. Well, I was. When did you decide that you knew what was best for my family?

Oliver

I love your family.

Quentin

[slugs Oliver] You got the right to remain silent. Take it!

Oliver

Just ask me what you want to know.

Quentin

[scoffs] What do I want to know? Well, was it worth it? All that pain and misery you brought back from the island? Merlyn, Slade Wilson? Wouldn't it be better if you just died there?

Oliver

The reason I came back was to try and save the people of the city.

Quentin

I hate to break it to you, but saving people isn't your specialty. Tommy. Hilton. Your mother. My daughter. And now you're set on killing Laurel, too.

Oliver

I didn't want her to be involved in this. I didn't want anyone to be involved in this.

Quentin

But you involved me. You spent a year making me look like a fool. You spent a year making me your accomplice. You have any idea what you've done, huh? What you've done to all of us, to the people you claim to care so much about? You've made us criminals! You've made us liars and victims. You, Mr. Queen, are not a hero. You're a villain. But you know that, don't you?

Ray

Still nothing. Not a visual sighting or any other reading at all from The Atom. And when I say Atom, I mean the suit, not myself in the third person.

Oliver

[to Felicity] Is there a decent chance that you and Palmer are related?