Barry Allen quotes from The Flash

Barry

My dad has spent 14 years in a six-by-eight foot cell for a crime he didn't commit. I couldn't save my mom, but I can save him.

Joe

Didn't I promise you that we would get your father out of prison, together?

Barry

I don't need your help Joe. I can be in and out of there with him before anyone even sees me.

Joe

Okay, you break him out of there, then what? He's on the run for the rest of his life. Something tells me he's not as fast as you are.

Barry

You don't know what it's like there.

Joe

You think I don't understand what you're feeling? I have been a cop for almost as long as you've been alive. So you should know, putting on that suit does not make everybody safe. For every person you save there's going to be someone you can't. And the hardest thing you're going to have to face is not some monster out there with powers. It's gonna be that feeling of uselessness when you can't do anything. Or the guilt that weighs on you when you make a mistake. Some things Barry, you can't fight. Some things, you just have to live with.

Barry

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, leaving like that.

Caitlin

It's okay, I get it, you had to go. It's just... that's the last thing Ronnie said to me that night.

Barry

My mother died 14 years ago. I used to think that the further away I got from it the less it would hurt, but some days the pain is worse than the day that it happened. Some things you can't fight.

Caitlin

For so long I've been terrified of going into that hole.

Barry

What if I went with you?

Caitlin

He saved so many lives that day, and no one will ever know what he did.

Barry

I do. He was a hero.

Caitlin

I didn't want him to be a hero, I wanted him to be my husband.

Barry

I mean, if you had just told me, I could have been prepared. But instead, someone died tonight.

Cisco

And I have to live with that.

Barry

No, Cisco, we all do

Felicity

Remember when you told me you had a little experience, liking someone who didn't like you the same way? That was Iris, right?

Barry

How did you know?

Felicity

It's the little things. The way you linger on her when she isn't looking, the smile you fake to play the part. The quiet dreams you keep to yourself.

Barry

Like you and Oliver. Takes one to know one. I'm afraid it will change everything.

Felicity

It will, but maybe that's not such a bad thing? What is wrong with us? We are perfectly perfect for each other.

Barry

Yet we're sitting here pining for people we can't have. I guess what they say is true. Opposites do attract.

Barry

Guys? I have a problem.

Cisco

We all do when guys like him exist.

Caitlin

[looking at Eddie] Yeah, he's so hot. Uh, I mean, genetically speaking. Because I'm a geneticist, of course. Oh, my God, do I sound like Felicity?

Barry

Don't ask.

Cisco

I'm gonna ask. Where's my suit?

Barry

It's... gone.

Cisco

What do you mean, it's gone? What did you do with my suit?

Barry

It blew up, dude. I managed to get out of it before it went "kaboom."

Cisco

My suit went "kaboom"?

Barry

Fun fact about Bette Sans Souci. She's not carrying bombs. She touched the emblem on the suit and turned it into a bomb. She's a meta-human.

Wells

With the ability to cause spontaneous combustion upon tactile contact.

Cisco

She blew up my suit.

Caitlin

You have, like, three more.

Cisco

Okay, I have two. And I loved that one.

Cisco

Dude, that had to feel great.

Barry

You have no idea.

Caitlin

Almost as proving me wrong about the supersonic punch?

Barry

Actually, that part hurt. Like, a lot.

Iris

I've been trying to get answers from him. Where does he come from? How does he do what he does? But he dodges everything. Literally, with this super-speed power. When he moves, Barry, you don't even see him. He comes and goes in the blink of an eye, in a...

Barry

Flash?

Iris

In a flash. Yeah.

Caitlin

You can't just lose your powers. Your DNA was transformed by the particle accelerator blast, OK? There's no way to un-transform DNA.

Barry

Tell that to the Uber driver that charged me sixty five bucks to take me here. I had to tell her I was coming from a cosplay party.

Barry

I haven't had my speed for very long, but now that it's gone it feels like part of me is gone too.

Caitlin

With or without your speed, you're still you Barry.

Barry

No I'm not. I'm not the best version of me. I love being The Flash. I love everything about it. The feeling of running hundreds of miles per hour. Wind and power just rushing past my face. Being able to help people. I'm not sure I can live without it Caitlin.

Barry

So why do you do what you do? Why get up in the morning?

Wells

Because I believe in a better future. One that I very much want to see. One that you are a part of. I might not very much care for people, Barry, but I care for you.

Oliver

Last month you took on a man named Leonard Snart.

Barry

We call him Captain Cold.

Oliver

We can talk about you giving your enemies silly code names later.

Barry

You mean like over coffee with Deathstroke and the Huntress?

Oliver

There's a difference, Barry, between having powers and having precision.

Barry

When I came here thinking about going out helping people, you said I could be an inspiration.

Oliver

Living this life... well, it takes more than a mask. It takes discipline. And since you are probably as stubborn as I am... [Oliver brings out his bow and arrow]

Barry

What is that for?

Oliver

You're going to run over there, you're gonna come back at me, and you're going to get hit with an arrow.

Barry

[laughs] No, I'm not.

Oliver

Yes, you are.

Barry

Okay. Fine. I will humor you. [runs up the field]

Barry

Ready?

Oliver

Ready.

Barry

Nice try. [hidden arrows behind Barry strike him in his back] Gah! Ah! What, you shot me?

Oliver

I heard you heal fast. [Oliver pulls the arrows out of Barry's back]

Felicity

How did it go with Oliver?

Barry

You know, to be honest, not exactly the partnership I thought it would be.

Felicity

Did he really do the thing with the arrows?

Barry

[exasperated] You knew he was gonna shoot me?

Felicity

Well, it is practically impossible to tell when Oliver's making a joke.

Oliver

There's one more thing and you're not going to like it.

Barry

Does it involve you shooting me in the back?

Oliver

No. No, the heart. [nods over at Iris] That's not going to work out for you. And you need to let her go, for both of your sakes. [Oliver and Barry look over at Felicity and Iris. Oliver turns back.] Guys like us don't get the girl.