Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Oliver

Why don't you just kill me now?

Slade

To kill you now would be a mercy. You cannot die until you have suffered the same way I have suffered, until you have known complete despair, and you will, I promise.

Amanda

Who do you want to kill more than me?

Oliver

Slade Wilson is alive.

Amanda

You killed him. It's not possible.

Oliver

Everything is possible where Slade is concerned. And I need your help to find him.

Amanda

I might have something.

Oliver

What?

Amanda

There's a new player we've been tracking, a mercenary. He's left a trail of bodies from Macau to Istanbul to Lisbon. A trail that leads right here to Starling. We've been calling him Deathstroke.

Felicity

Oliver, where are you? Are you okay?

Oliver

I'm with Lance as Oliver, and he just called the Arrow.

Felicity

Oh. Oh! It's getting really hard to keep track of who knows whose secret identity.

Helena

You know, I thought I'd feel different now that he's dead, but I don't. And you always told me that killing him wouldn't change anything. You were right.

Oliver

But I was wrong, too.

Helena

About what?

Oliver

I thought I could help you. To stop you from being a killer, but... I was just starting. And I was a killer, too.

Helena

And what are you now?

Oliver

I'm trying to be better.

Oliver

They're calling you Deathstroke.

Slade

That's a bit flamboyant. I like it.

Oliver

With Slade out there, I don't have time for the company.

Felicity

Well, you have to make time, Oliver. At least three hours. The annual board meeting. There's absolutely zero way that the CEO can avoid being there. And I know it's been a while, so in you case you've forgotten, that's you. Do you remember where you put your business suit? Or do you keep it in a cool glass case, too?

Oliver

What's this for?

Laurel

Because you're important to me.

Oliver

Alright, we need to deal with Slade figure out what his next move is. I know Slade, he is not gonna stop 'till...

Slade

[shows up] Welcome home. [beats Sara, Diggle and Oliver] Don't forget who taught you how to fight, kid.

Moira

There's only one way this night can end and we both know that, don't we, Mr. Wilson?

Oliver

Mom!

Moira

Please tell me both my children will live.

Thea

Mom! What are you doing?! Mom!

Moira

Thea, I love you. Close your eyes, baby!

Oliver

NO!

Slade

You possess true courage. I am truly sorry you did not pass that on to your son.

Sara

That's not true. I wanted to kill Roy because that's what I do. That's who I am. I spent six years in the darkness and I looked into the eyes of the devil and I gave him my soul.

Oliver

I can help you get it back.

Sara

No. You deserve someone better. You can harness that light that's still inside of you, but I'm not that person and I never will be.

Laurel

You're really cute when you're mopey.

Oliver

I'm not mopey.

Laurel

Mopey's your default Ollie. It's part of your smoldering charm.

Oliver

I do have smoldering charm.

Oliver

[talking about Thea] Thanks for taking care of her.

Diggle

Lucky for me, she's not as good at disappearing as you are.

Oliver

Submarines have torpedoes, right? Can't we blast our way out?

Anatoly

I can see why you two are made for each other. You like your explosions.

Oliver

She's dead because of me. Five years ago, I could have cured Slade, and that would have prevented all of this. And now, all the people left that I care about, we're all in his crosshairs. It ends tonight.

Felicity

How?

Oliver

I turn myself over to Slade. I end this vendetta.

Diggle

Oliver, you think this ends with you turning yourself over to Slade?

Oliver

Yes, I do. After she was gone... he told me that one more person had to die, and then it would end. This ends for Slade when he kills me.

Felicity

I don't accept that. You shouldn't either. You can't just accept things, Oliver. If I had accepted my life, I would be a cocktail waitress in Vegas like my mother, and I never would have gone to college, and I never would have moved a thousand miles away to work at Queen Consolidated, and I never would have believed some crazy guy in a hood when he told me I could be more than just some IT girl. Please, don't do this.

Oliver

Felicity...someone once told me that the essence of heroism is to die so others can live.

Diggle

It's not that simple, Oliver.

Oliver

Yes, it is. Slade's whole plan was to take everything from me, and he did. He wins. All that's left is for me to die.

Felicity

No, there has to be another way.

Oliver

There isn't.

Oliver

You're a good man, Anatoly. If this is goodbye, be safe.

Anatoly

I will see you soon. You and Sara.

Oliver

I meant what I said. If we're not back in an hour, you sink the freighter and get yourself home.

Anatoly

I think maybe I prefer Bahamas.