Sara Lance quotes from Arrow

You have family in Starling?

Sara Lance

Yeah. My father, he's a - he's a policeman. And my sister, she's a lawyer.

Well, they must be proud of their masked delinquent.

Sara

Yeah, they think I'm dead.

Oh, cool. My folks think I'm dead, too. That, or they wish I'd never been born.

Sara

Dig, you may be a three-tour special forces veteran, but I was trained by the people that make the special forces look like a kindergarten class so step aside, or be put down.

Diggle

It's your funeral Sara.

Sara

It wouldn't be my first.

Sara

I'm sorry you saw that. I can't imagine what you must think of me.

Quentin

I think you're a survivor. I think you're one of the bravest people I've ever known. You're my daughter. It's time for you to come back home.

Sara

There were things that I did; things that I had to do to survive. Things that there's no forgiveness for.

Oliver

Well, that's the thing about forgiveness--you can't get it until you ask for it.

Oliver

We'll find out when we find him.

Sara

And when we do, you can't tell him.

Oliver

Tell him what?

Sara

Don't talk to me like I'm other people. You've got that look on your face. The same one you had after the first time we kissed. Pure guilt.

Oliver

Because I am guilty, Sara! Ivo killed Shado because of me.

Sara

That's not true! And even if it was, nothing good comes from telling Slade that you think you're responsible for the death of the women he loved. Love's the most powerful emotion, and that makes it the most dangerous.

Sara

Okay, Laurel, I wasn't trying to be a bitch.

Laurel

The title of your autobiography.

Quentin

You never did tell me how you joined up with the Arrow. Where did you two even meet?

Sara

Vigilante club

Oliver

Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital?

Felicity

Uh uh. You guys never go to the hospital. Besides, Dig gave me some of those aspirins. Are you spinning?

Oliver

[whispers to Diggle] Aspirin?

Diggle

[whispers back] Oxycodone.

Sara

I wouldn't be here if you hadn't been so brave. Thank you.

Felicity

It was nothing. I've always wanted to say I've taken a bullet for someone, and now I can. So, really, I should be thanking you.

Sara

[finishes the sutures] All done. Not bad, but you're still gonna have a scar.

Felicity

My own scar. Yay.

Oliver

[approaches Felicity] You all right? [Felicity nods] Diggle had mentioned that maybe you were feeling a little left out.

Felicity

What? No! I'm just used to being your girl. I mean not your "girl" girl... your girl. I know it sounds like the same word, but it... it means something different in my head.

Oliver

[gently cups Felicity's cheek] Hey... you will always be my girl, Felicity.

Why are you doing this?

Sara

I'm with Oliver now!

Anatoly

Why should I believe you?

Sara

Because you don't want to die! Go!

Sara

[to Diggle and Felicity] What do you guys think?

Felicity

I think if the Huntress shows up, you should totally kick her ass.

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.

Sara

You don't know, Laurel, about me. About who I am, and who I've become.

Laurel

I know you're a hero.

Sara

I'm not a hero... Laurel. I'm the furthest thing from it. I am "Ta-er al-Sahfer." That was my new name. Because of the woman that I was, the girl that I was, is gone.

Laurel

I'm not going to pretend that I've been through anything that you have. But one thing that I've learned in the past year is that these things... they don't break us. They make us who we are.

Sara

And what I am... is irredeemable.

Laurel

What was that word you said before?

Sara

Ta-er al-Sahfer.

Laurel

What does that mean?

Sara

It means "The Canary".

Laurel

If you're so far gone and so irredeemable... then why would they know you by such a beautiful name?

Black Siren

Thank you for coming.

Sara

[slightly emotional] How is he?

Black Siren

In surgery. The doctors, they're optimistic, but... but I thought you should really be here.

Sara

Thank you.

Black Siren

This is probably really strange for you, right?

Sara

A little. Are you, um... are you like my Laurel?

Black Siren

[shakes her head] Hardly at all.

Felicity

Well. I'm having déjà vu in the best way possible.

Sara

Did Dinah read you the riot act?

Felicity

Nothing I can't handle.

Sara

Come a long way from the I.T. girl secretly crushing on Oliver Queen.

Felicity

Apparently it wasn't much of a secret. Everybody knew. Zero poker face. And I always wondered, you know, were you flirting with me all those times you said I was cute?

Sara

Why? Were you into it?

Felicity

Of course. It's you. [They hug] I missed you.

Sara

Missed you, too.

Sara

Look, I don't know what you've heard about me, but basically, I had an affair with my sister's boyfriend, I allowed my family to think that I was dead, and then I became a league-trained assassin.

Black Siren

Wow. That's impressive.

Sara

My point is even with someone with a past as checkered as mine can still turn their life around, can be a hero.

Black Siren

I was being a hero. I was the D.A., I got Oliver out of prison, and I was the only one who figured out that his little sister was basically the Devil, and they still turned on me.

Sara

So, what, you think you deserve a medal for trying to be good for 5 seconds? Redemption isn't a destination. It's a journey. I wasted years running away from all the bad things that I had done because I didn't want to face the pain that I caused because I didn't want to be that person, and I realized the only way to stop being that person was to come home and own up to things I had done, and, yeah, it was painful, and it took a really long time, but it was the only way to become someone else, someone better than who I was.

Black Siren

Well, that's great for you, but even if I wanted to change, it's a little bit too late because this is who I am.