Damien Darhk quotes from Arrow

Damien Darhk

So you're all fretting about this city dying. I'm here on behalf of an organization that wants you to let it die. See, death is a beautiful thing. We die, we go into the ground, our remains grow into flowers. It's only in the interval after dying that new things can sprout. Cities are like puppies. You see them writhing in agony on the street, you put them down, you don't let them suffer.

Darhk

Trust is an orchid. Beautiful but delicate. Requires ideal conditions in order to thrive. Without those conditions, it dies.

Darhk

I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. Ms. Lance. Nine months ago, I made your daddy a promise. I told him what I would do if he betrayed me. [Oliver resists Darhk's spell long enough to fire an arrow at him, but Darhk mystically catches it.] Impressive. Now, where was I? Oh, yeah. I want you to give your father a message. From me. I want you to tell him... [stabs Laurel with the arrow and twists it] I'm a man of my word.

Darhk

Hello, Oliver. Nice timing. I think you're gonna need much bigger arrows.

Green Arrow

Sorry. You had to get off at an earlier stop.

Darhk

You can't be the Arrow. He died. So who are you?

Green Arrow

You're about to find out. [loads and aims his bow at Damien] Stop the train!

Darhk

No, I don't want to. Even if I did, I couldn't. I destroyed the braking system 20 miles away.

Green Arrow

Willing to die to destroy a train station?

Darhk

No, that would be ridiculous.

Green Arrow

Then how are you planning on getting off the train?!?

Darhk

You don't know who I am, do you? I'm Damien Darhk.

Darhk

I can give advice, father to father. If she were my daughter, I'd put her down.

Quentin

She's my baby girl.

Darhk

No, she isn't. She may look like your daughter, but she doesn't possess her soul. The most loving act you can commit is to return Sara to her final rest. I'm sorry.

Darhk

Where's my family?!?

Green Arrow

I saved them.

Darhk

I want to be clear about something. I have shown you repeatedly that you cannot beat me. You saved my family. So I'll give you a few weeks to spend with yours. Enjoy your time. What's left of it.

Damien

When you're dead, I'll be sure to put that totem to better use.

Took the words right out of my mouth. [jumps over Damien and steals his totem]

Damien

Well. That happened.

Darhk

You know, you're lucky I'm not the man that you think I am, Miss Lance. If I were the man that your father so vehemently claims, you'd be in a lot of trouble right now, wouldn't you?

Laurel

Are you threatening an assistant district attorney?

Darhk

Oh, no, no, no. Not at all. Just merely trying to figure out where your father gets these vicious ideas from. Ooh! Oh. I hope his mind isn't starting to go. You know, dementia is sometimes an aftereffect of long-term alcoholism.

Laurel

You're a son of a bitch.

Darhk

I had a lot of time to reflect while I was in prison. Mostly about religion and bundt cake. But after much thought, I realized that -- Oh, almost forgot... did my little incarceration delay Genesis at all?

Of course not. Genesis is much bigger than just one person.

Darhk

[low chuckle] Gold star for you. Where was I? Oh, that's right, my jailhouse epiphany. If I could escape prison without your help, what do I need any of you for?

Darhk

Milo. You really have not been paying attention, have you. [hurls the bullet back at Milo's head, killing him]

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.

Felicity

Go to hell.

Darhk

Why bother? I'm going to bring it to us.

Darhk

What are you gonna do now, Oliver? Stop posturing. We both know you can't do it. You spared the life of the man that killed your own mother.

Oliver

You killed a friend of mine. You killed tens of thousands of innocent people. With Slade Wilson, I had a choice. This time, I don't.