Arrow quotes

Felicity

Oliver, what are we doing here? The whole city's falling apart.

Oliver

I know. You need to stay here.

Felicity

What? Why? You can't just ask me to--

Oliver

I'm not asking.

Felicity

No!

Oliver

Felicity...

Felicity

No. Not unless you tell me why.

Oliver

Because I need you to be safe.

Felicity

Well, I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you and the others. Unsafe.

Oliver

I can't let that happen.

Felicity

Oliver. you're not making any sense.

Oliver

Slade took Laurel because he wants to kill the woman I love.

Felicity

I know, so?

Oliver

So, he took the wrong woman.

Felicity

Oh.

Oliver

I love you. Do you understand?

Felicity

Yeah.

Slade

Where am I?

Oliver

As far away from the world as I could get you. Where you can't hurt anyone ever again.

Slade

That's your weakness, kid. You don't have the guts to kill me.

Oliver

No. I have the strength to let you live.

Slade

Oh, you're a killer. I know, I created you. You've killed plenty.

Oliver

Yes, I have. You helped turn me into a killer when I needed to be one. And I'm alive today because of you. I made it home because of you. And I got to see my family again. But over the past year, I needed to be more... but I faltered. But then I stopped you. Without killing. You helped me become a hero, Slade. Thank you.

Slade

You think I won't get out of here? You think I won't kill who you care for?

Oliver

No, I don't. Because you're in purgatory.

Slade

I keep my promises, kid. I keep my promises! I keep my promises.

Felicity

Last time I didn't notice; it's actually kind of beautiful here. Don't get me wrong, I'm counting the seconds until we shove off minefield island.

Diggle

So you think that'll be enough to hold him, A.R.G.U.S.'s super max?

Oliver

Him and anyone else we send here. This battle may be over, but there will be others. Starting with getting my family's company back.

Felicity

That's not going to be easy since you're poor now. You're going to have to get a job. If Slade doesn't scare you, that's got to.

Oliver

Do you know anyone hiring ex-billionaires with superior archery skills?

Oliver

Congratulations John. And not just on the baby. You and Lyla are happy.

Diggle

Well you know, you should try it some time.

Oliver

Last girlfriend? She's in the League of Assassins. My girlfriend before that? She shot my girlfriend before that. Listen, I'm... not exactly a catch at the moment.

Diggle

Maybe Felicity will change all that.

Oliver

It's not the right time.

Diggle

Things are as good now as ever will be Oliver. And you love her. You even told her so.

Oliver

I was trying to fool Slade.

Diggle

Yes, except now the only person you're fooling is yourself.

Arrow

Send his photo to Roy. Get me Felicity.

Diggle

Got it.

Felicity

I can't talk right now, I'm at work. Could I ask you guys to wait one moment? Someone's calling for tech support! You're going to get me so incredibly fired. Okay, I'm hacking into the city's database, I am running facial recognition now.

Arrow

Do you like Italian?

Felicity

What?

Arrow

For tonight. You like Italian right? Everyone likes Italian.

Felicity

Oliver, you're in the middle of a high speed chase.

Arrow

I'm multitasking!

Oliver

Am I being crazy? I mean, what do we have to be nervous about?

Felicity

Well, we've already exhausted every topic that one would normally talk about on a first date, and a second date, and a third date, and every date actually. And I've already seen you shirtless. Multiple times. Shirtless all the time.

Felicity

She's beautiful. [referring to Diggle's daughter]

Oliver

Yes, she is. We need to talk.

Felicity

I don't want to talk. Which, for me, I know is a little unprecedented. But as soon as we talk, it's over.

Oliver

I'm so sorry. I thought that I could be me and the Arrow. But I can't. Not now. Maybe not ever.

Felicity

Then say never. Stop dangling maybes. Say it's never going to work out between us. Say you never loved me. Say–

Oliver

Felicity. [kisses her] Don't ask me to say that I don't love you.

Felicity

I told you as soon as we talked, it would be over. [she walks away]

Oliver

Two years ago, the people of Starling City thought I was dead. I came back. And so can Queen Consolidated. With Starling National Bank's new investment, we can take QC out of receivership and into the future. This company is my family, and as my mother always said: There is nothing more important to me than family. Thank you.

Ray Palmer

[to Oliver] Good speech, hard to top. [walks to the front of the table] Thank you all for coming out today. I promise to be brief, if not a little entertaining. [to a female board member] Ah, that's one of my new smartwatches. I'm very proud of those. You like it? It works for you? Yeah, good. Anyway, science, numbers. I like numbers. These numbers show QC's performance under Mr. Queen's management. I'm using that term extremely loosely B.T.W. Also, B.T.W, these numbers aren't sanitized for Wall Street, this is raw information from your company's own servers.

Oliver

[to Felicity] How did he get into our computers?

Felicity

Something tells me he deployed a remote administration tool.

Ray

But the truth is, this company's woes are a symptom of a much larger problem. And that problem is Starling City. Queen Consolidated can't hope to survive if the city it's located in is dying, and guess what? It is. Nobody wants to live here anymore. And after two terrorist attacks, who can blame them? This city still needs saving. And that is my vision for this company: To not only see it rise from the ashes, but to take this city with it to that new horizon. And that new day has a name. [points at a slide with the text "Star City"]

Arrow

What is it, detective?

Quentin

You okay? You look like someone peed in your cornflakes.

Felicity

Do you even know how difficult it is to ping a clone off a hacked transband multiplex?

Roy

No, but only because you weren't speaking English just now.

Ray

You know, most girls would be flattered that I spent $1.2 billion just to hire them, even if I do have a fairly genius plan for rebranding the stores.

Felicity

In case you haven't noticed, I am not most girls and I don't need this. Or you. Or any of this.

Oliver

I just need your A game right now Felicity.

Felicity

I don't have it! My friend, our friend, was shot with arrows and fell off of a rooftop. Her body is upstairs right above us in a freezer because we don't know what to do with it, with her, so I am so sorry, Oliver, if I have feelings, but maybe if you did, too... I'm sorry. That was mean. But this is Sara we're talking about. Your Sara. How can you stand there being so cold and rational?

Oliver

Because I don't have the luxury of falling to pieces. Everyone is looking to me to handle things, to make the right decisions. Everyone is looking to me to lead. If I grieve, nobody else gets to.

So you're The Arrow. I thought you'd be taller.

So why did you reach out to me?

Thea

You reached first.

Still.

Thea

I don't want to feel this pain again. I don't want to hurt or get hurt ever again, and you seem like someone who could teach me how not to.

Laurel

Ted Grant.

Well I guess that badge means you're not here for a self defense class.

Laurel

No, I've already had my fair share. I'm here about one of your students, Tom Bronson. A witness places him at the scene of a break-in last night.

Ted

Well that's not possible, because Tom and I were sparring last night.

Laurel

Mr. Grant, do you know that lying to the District Attorney is against the law?

Ted

If by that you mean am I willing to lie in order to keep a good kid who just happened to make a stupid mistake out of this system? I think you know my answer.

Laurel

Are you admitting to perjury Mr. Grant?

Ted

Uh, that's a big word. I'm just a dumb fighter, right? Look, Tom was here with me last night and we worked on his upper cut combinations. Like I said, in this city there are a lot of good people who are dealt bad hands. They lose someone, they lose themselves. Which is why they come in here to work off that rage. I've gotten good at picking out the types, types just like you.

Laurel

If I'm angry it's because I'm dealing with someone who's willing to lie to the DA to protect a punk kid.

Ted

I don't think that's the case. Either way, if you do have something you want to work off... [hands her a brochure]