Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Oliver

Your students used to ask questions first.

Talia

I have learned that hesitation often proves fatal. You should have not come to this place.

Oliver

You owe me a debt. I'm here to collect.

Thea

You're gonna take on a god, Ollie, you're gonna need all the help you can get.

Oliver

Pretty good on help actually. I have John, I have Laurel - believe it or not. Seems to me you have your hands full rebuilding the League of Assassins into a league of heroes.

Thea

Yeah.

Oliver

I can't believe I'm saying good-bye to you again.

Thea

Well, you're not. Think of it as a "see you later, and please don't die."

Thea

You're leaving?

Talia

I have betrayed my honor and sacred traditions to the league. The sword was destined to be yours, daughter of Merlyn. I am sorry for the pain I've caused you both.

Oliver

What about your students?

Talia

I have released them. They will follow you if that is what you wish.

Thea

It's not. You're their teacher. They need someone to follow.

Talia

If I was meant to lead them, I would wield Al-Fatih's sword, but you do, so the honor and the burden are yours.

Thea

Yeah. Hard pass.

Talia

It is your destiny.

Thea

Yeah, but, see, about that. I don't really believe in the whole fate, destiny thing. We can all make our own choices.

Talia

Meaning?

Thea

Meaning I don't think the world doesn't need another League of Assassins. It could use a league of heroes. It wouldn't be a one-woman job.

Talia

You'd extend me that honor despite my betrayals?

Thea

You made a mistake. We've all made mistakes.

Talia

Not one but two woman to wield my father's sword? He would be aghast. I accept.

Mia

So this is what you wanted to show me, grandpa's grave?

Oliver

Did your mother ever mention him?

Mia

Not really.

Oliver

I suppose she wouldn't know what to say. I barely do.

Mia

You weren't close?

Oliver

I didn't really get to know the real him until after he died, and, uh... look, I don't want that to be us.

Mia

You've, um... you've lost people, right?

Oliver

Yeah. Too many.

Mia

Does the guilt ever leave?

Oliver

No. You can learn to live with it. I can help you with that, Mia. If you'd like.

Oliver

Why would I want to share some of the worst mistakes of my entire life with my children?

Anatoly

That is the thing about teaching. It's not about what you want to say. It's about what they need to hear. Remember first thing I taught you?

Oliver

Living is not for the weak.

Anatoly

Your children are not weak, Oliver. They're also not children. Whatever it is you have to say, they can handle it. If you do not, they will never learn to be heroes.

Oliver

Thank you. I always seem to end up in your debt.

Anatoly

We are beyond keeping score. We have been friends, we have been enemies. From now on, let us just be brothers.

Oliver

Not the Bratva kind.

Anatoly

No! Real family, like the one you have now. I can be the fun uncle.

Anatoly

[pouring Mia a shot of vodka] Congratulations. Now you my favorite American.

Oliver

Hey, don't get too excited. He has a lot of favorite Americans.

Oliver

So, specialty arrows. And each one has a specific purpose.

Mia

What does this one do?

Oliver

Explosive arrow. Lighter payload, meant to divert and disable. Acidic arrow, meant to breach covertly or weaken structurally. Bolo Arrow, to secure and subdue. These are just tools. If you rely on them too much, they become crutches.

Mia

Then why have them?

Oliver

To get out of a fight, or to end one before it begins.

Oliver

We've had this exact conversation already.

Quentin

What are you talking about?

Oliver

Fully aware how this is going to sound. Quinton, I'm trapped in some sort of... time loop, where the same events keep repeating themselves.

Quentin

Like Groundhog Day.

Oliver

Sure. Except this one ends with a lot of people dead, including the two of us.

Quentin

You know, getting hunted like this in a space like this is kind of like what I was doing to you all those years ago. Remember? Sort of makes sense I'd go out like this now, don't you think?

Oliver

Would you please just save your strength?

Quentin

For what? Oliver, you take care of these guys, there'll be more behind them, there will be more behind them. There is no saving me from this! Okay? You ever think that's the point? Maybe you're not supposed to.

Oliver

I'm not giving up. And you're not giving up, either.

Quentin

Oh, no, no, no. I'm not giving up. Maybe I'm giving in. You see, I've been outrunning death for a while now. The siege, the island, but when Diaz shot me, that felt different, like I was finally at the end, and I made my peace with that. And maybe it's time you did, too.

Oliver

What made you decide that I wasn't your enemy anymore? What changed your mind?

Quentin

Heh. Oh, you know, my daughters, for one. Because I didn't raise dummies, and, uh, you know, if they were okay with you, then I figured I should be, too. Yeah.

Oliver

They trusted me, and you trusted them.

Quentin

Yeah. They got me to listen to what I always knew in my gut, that we were on the same side, and fighting for the same goal, and it just took me a while to get there. Sorry.

Black Siren

Why would the Monitor let me see Quentin one last time?

Oliver

It was a reward, for not betraying me.

Black Siren

Didn't really think rewards were his brand.

Oliver

No. We were wrong about him.

Black Siren

And Lyla was right? That's annoying. So why did you have to learn to let Lance go?

Oliver

Because deep down, I still believed that I could fight my fate. Now I know I can't.

Oliver

You know, I, uh... I never expected to be on a mission with you like this, you know. I'm glad you're here.

Black Siren

No offense, but shouldn't this Kodak moment be with you and someone else?

Oliver

What?

Black Siren

You and Mia.

Oliver

Oh. Trying to give her a little space.

Black Siren

Sure you're not trying to avoid a difficult conversation?

Oliver

I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to talk to me, Laurel.

Black Siren

Oliver, don't be an idiot, okay? All that girl wants to do is live up to her father.

Oliver

Fine. All this father wants is to complete this mission so that my kids actually have a world to live in. We are almost there. Come on.

Black Siren

Oliver. A piece of advice. Don't leave this island with more regrets than you already have buried here.

Oliver

Lyla?

Lyla

Not anymore. I'm now a Harbinger of things to come.

Mia

So, does that mean that...

Lyla

Yes. The Crisis has begun.