Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

The best thing my parents every gave me was that freedom. Well, that and this totem. That makes me a total badass.

Oliver

You don't need a totem for that.

Damn right I don't.

Felicity

You should have told me. Marriage is about inclusion. It's about leaning on your partner when things get complicated. But I don't think you know how to do that.

Oliver

I'm... I'm trying.

Oliver

Kevlar under the tux. My bodyguard insisted.

What's his plan for C4?

Diggle

That is a damn good question.

Oliver

I don't want to let you go.

Felicity

I don't want to let you go... but I'm already gone.

Oliver

[about Felicity] Laurel, she's not Voldemort, and I'm fine. That's a good idea. [to Thea] You should tell Alex to talk to Felicity.

Thea

[suppressing a smile] Mm-hm.

Oliver

What?

Thea

Nothing. It's just... it's shocking that you know who Voldemort is.

Oliver

Well, I mean, I'm not immune to pop culture. I read a few of the Harry Potter books.

Diggle

Really? I was gonna bet Thea that you just saw the movies.

Oliver

There were movies?

Laurel

I know how passionately you love and how much it hurts once that love goes away.

Oliver

You know, between Merlyn, Slade Wilson and Ra's al Ghul, I thought I'd be a little... tougher than this by now.

Laurel

That's a different type of pain. And this takes longer to heal.

Diggle

Why does that thing creep me out the way it does?

Laurel

Because it's creepy.

Oliver

There's something I haven't told you guys.

Thea

Shocker. [Oliver gives her a look] Sorry.

Oliver

I've seen this idol before.

Laurel

What? Where?

Oliver

Lian Yu.

Laurel

You really love not talking about that place, don't you?

Oliver

[pressing down hard on Andy's arrow wound] I told John to trust you. To give you another chance. But I was wrong. Because men like you don't change. Now you tell me: what does Darhk have planned?!

If I'm the man that you think I am, then you know torture is not gonna get me to say anything.

Oliver

I haven't started torturing you yet. [presses Andy's wound harder]

Felicity

What are you doing here?

Oliver

Thinking.

Felicity

Mmm. Which is Oliver-speak for "beating yourself up".

Oliver

I'm staring to think that this guy's gonna be a no-show.

Felicity

Right.

It's because he's not a guy, amour. Esrin Fortuna. Tell John Constantine he still owes me money.

Oliver

Earlier with Darhk, it worked. He tried to use his magic on me, and I was able to repel it.

Felicity

That's incredible. How'd you do it?

Oliver

I heard your voice in my head. You were reminding me of all the good things I have in my life. I heard Thea, I heard John. I heard Laurel. Just telling me to keep fighting. To never give up. Just telling me to have hope.

Diggle

[realizing Darhk's Genesis is comparable to the Old Testament] God wanted to give the world a do-over, so he destroyed it.

Oliver

He destroyed it with a flood. Rubicon is Darhk's flood.

Felicity

So nuclear annihilation is Darhk's flood. What's he planning on building as his ark?

Lyla

The President asked me if the fate of the world is resting in the hands of an IT girl, a criminal, and two guys in Halloween costumes.

Oliver

They're not Halloween costumes.

Darhk

[incinerates incoming arrows] Cool. You know, I didn't even mean to do that. [Diggle fires pistol at Darhk] I turn steel arrows into dust and you thought lead would do the trick?

Diggle

He's not human anymore.

Darhk

Oh, I'm still human. Just better.

Oliver

Still doesn't give you the right to remake the world.

Darhk

Why not? It's been done before. Noah and the Flood. People even worship the responsible party.

Oliver

Do you really think that maybe Darhk has a point?

Diggle

Well, Darhk is psychotic. Everyone down here is.

Oliver

Are they? He's not wrong [the man they're holding prisoner]. The world is coming apart. Just like Star City. I mean, it is worse than it has ever been.

Diggle

That's because Darhk's been spending the past year trying to kill it.

Oliver

Then why is he giving these people more hope than we ever could?