Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Oliver

How did you know where to start? All that I told you was that Chase might have something.

Felicity

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I hacked his laptop. Saving Dig is gonna break at least twelve federal laws. Hacking your D.A. is just small ball. Plus, you are the mayor. You can pardon me.

Oliver

Actually, I can't.

Felicity

It doesn't matter, because I am having fun. I haven't done a good old "grab government secrets" kind of hack in a really long time, and it's a great change of pace and it feels awesome. And it'll keep me busy while you're gone.

Oliver

I... I'm going somewhere?

Curtis

Maybe Hub City.

Rory

We're thinking that's where the new Black Canary is hanging out.

Oliver

Yeah, let's not call her that just yet. I'd like to see her in the field, at least, first.

Wow. Costume warehouse having a fire sale I didn't know about? What do you want?

Oliver

You're a vigilante, and a metahuman. For the past three years, you've been working alone.

Curtis

We have a proposition for you. [off Oliver's look] Oh. Sorry, you were doing fine. You... you.. you take it here.

Oliver

We'd like you to join us. And give you a home. A team. And a place to better train in the use of your power.

I can take care of myself. Oh, uh, and if you get in my way, I'll send the three of you back to Star City with your nuts in a sling. [walks to the edge of the roof and jumps off.]

Rene

I thought that went pretty good.

Oliver

You trained Yao Fei? How's that possible? You're half his age.

Don't you know it's improper to talk about a woman's age? Let's just say it's a family secret.

Talia

General Shreve, Baron Reiter, Konstantin Kovar. You keep looking for new fights when the real fight has been in front of you all along. Your father literally wrote it for you, a list of all the Yurieviches and Kovars in Starling City.

Oliver

He told me he left me a message.

Talia

And yet you still don't return home. Why do you deny your father's wish for you?

Oliver

You saw the reason tonight. I am not the man that my father raised. Not anymore.

Talia

You're afraid. Of what's happened to you, of what you've become, and you're running from it.

Oliver

How do you know all this?

Talia

Because I've been there. And I can help you find your way back. You think yourself a monster.

Oliver

No. I am a monster.

Talia

There is a monster inside you, yes. But it is not you.

Oliver

I don't see the difference.

Talia

No. You need to create one. [opens the trunk, takes out a uniform] You need to give the monster an identity. It's only when the monster becomes someone else -- something else -- that you're free to be Oliver Queen.

So about that name. "Tina Boland" was my official cover for undercover work. It was to protect my family. My real name is Dinah. Dinah Drake.

Oliver

[smiling] "Dinah"?

Does that name mean something to you?

Oliver

I had a friend named Dinah. She's the reason I sought you out.

What do you think she'd think about all this?

Oliver

I think she'd be proud of both of us.

Talia

You're beginning to understand now.

Oliver

Understand what?

Talia

That a man who embraces the dark is never without sight.

Dinah Drake

You know, the other guy said when you get in one of your moods, I should just let you be, but, um, to be honest, brooding... really kinda gets on my nerves.

Oliver

They told you about me. They tell you about Prometheus?

Dinah

Yeah. They did. Why? Is this mood because you got pulled back into some Bratva drama?

Oliver

No, it... Dinah, I'm trying to move forward. And I'm back here. I'm in Russia. In the Bratva. And it just proves to me, I can't seem to do that.

Dinah

Prometheus got in your head. What was it, some crap about infecting the people closest to you? --

Oliver

Yeah! And tonight, I just watched John torture a man! And there's something going on with Felicity. There's...

Dinah

You affect the people in your life, Oliver, that's hardly a revelatory observation. In fact, I... I think, uh... it's called "living". Prometheus has you so fixated on what's wrong with you, you've completely stopped seeing what's right. You know, John and Felicity, they'll listen to you. Because you have more to offer [indicates Oliver's fist] than just this. Your past is a part of you. There's nothing you can do about that. You can't change it. Doesn't mean it has to be your anchor.

John

Oliver, I thought you didn't want anything to do with the Bratva.

Oliver

I don't. But if it's a choice between me crossing a line and the two of you crossing one, that is a very easy choice.

John

[to Felicity] What did you do?

Oliver

Doesn't matter. Here's what does: I am who I am. Now I'm trying to work past that. Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. But I can not, I will not, have the two of you make the same mistakes.

Felicity

Oliver, you were the one who taught us that sometimes you have to get in the muck to make things right.

Oliver

Well, then Prometheus wins. Because he'll be right. I need the two of you to prove to him, and quite frankly, to prove to me, that he's not. I need the two of you to be better than me. Because you are.

Anatoly

I have location for Walker. And men to help in fight. But we have to leave now.

Curtis

[speaking in Russian] Thank you so much!

Anatoly

Your strange friend's pronunciation is horrible.

Oliver

Yeah, I'll tutor him later.

Anatoly

I hear you're mayor now. Big promotion. Now you pakhan, now you tell everyone what to do.

Oliver

That's not how things work in America, Anatoly.

Anatoly

Yeah, that's the way things work everywhere. I was hoping maybe you could repay me.

Oliver

I thought we were even.

Anatoly

I thought you returned to Bratva.

Oliver

That was temporary.

Anatoly

That is the thing about oaths, Oliver. They are never temporary. They are for life.

Oliver

It's really nice to have you back.

Thea

Well, I could say the same to you. I mean, Hub City and Russia. Really racking up those miles.

Oliver

Lot to catch up on.

Thea

Yeah. Like you and Susan Williams. [Oliver turns and looks at her.] People talk, Ollie. And some people [makes fake gag reaction]... vomit a little.

Oliver

Thea, you're kinda insulting someone that I'm getting pretty serious about.

Thea

Did I mention people vomit a little?

Oliver

You don't like Susan because of how she does her job. She's good at her job and she's a good person. So there.

Thea

Uh huh. [walks off]

Oliver

Look. I'm gonna stay here until we take out Gregor and we protect the Bratva.

Anatoly

Because you'll "stay"? You going to leave.

Oliver

Look, Anatoly, I realize I... I have to get back to my life. Then I saw what Gregor did to you because of me, and--

Anatoly

You're a sin-eater, Oliver. In some cultures, there's this guy who lives on edge of village. And when somebody dies, they put body there and cover it with fruits and vegetables, and he eats that.

Oliver

He eats their sins?

Anatoly

Yes. So they go on to the afterlife. He takes their sins as his own.

Thea

Is everything okay with Susan?

Oliver

Yeah. Why?

Thea

Just... you know, your assistant clocked a little tension, so...

Oliver

Thea, is my assistant your mole?

Thea

I like to think of him more as, like, my informant.

Thea

I'm really sorry, Ollie. I... I know I screwed up, and --

Oliver

But you didn't make a mistake. You made a choice. And you reminded me of someone.

Thea

Who?

Oliver

Mom. She would've done something like this. More like, she would've done exactly this. She was a wonderful mother, but I think we both know that she didn't always make the best choices. Whatever's going to happen with Susan is whatever's going to happen. Right now... right now, I'm really worried about my baby sister.

Oliver

[unfamiliar with the procedure] What'd you do?

Anatoly

Extend our lives by length of good movie.