Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)/Quotes

The men and women I've targeted are dangerous, corrupt, a virulent cancer. Cancers like James Holder, whose corporation put defective smoke detectors in low-income housing in The Glades. There have been many fires and too many funerals. But cancers can be fought and conquered. All it takes is a surgeon and the right instrument.

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Justin Claybourne, you have failed this city.

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I don't think that bolt of lightning struck you, Barry. I think it chose you.

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No, John, you didn't tell me because you knew I'd never let you go out there compromised and that I'd certainly never let you compromise the team. I have been mad at you before, John, this... is the first time I have ever been disappointed.

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Hope. Inspiration. Someone who can do things in the light who isn't afraid. Someone who can protect himself. Felicity, I'm gonna run for Mayor.

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You helped me become a hero, Slade. Thank you.

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That's not our Laurel.

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My name is Oliver Queen. After five years in hell, I returned home with only one goal—to save my city. For eight years, I've fought alongside brave men and women striving for justice. But then, a Crisis came. And I had to become someone else. I had to become something else. I made the ultimate sacrifice, which helped birth an entirely new universe. Now my friends and family will have to go on without me. And although I have become a Spectre, there is a part of me that will always be the Green Arrow.

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Curtis, you're Terrific.

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Felicity Smoak, will you make me the happiest man on the face of the Earth?

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A part of me has always wanted you to see what kind of man I really am! I didn't expect to wind up finding out what kind of man you really are.

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Do you know why I always blame myself in situations like this? Because at least it's an answer. Sometimes we just need a reason when a situation is completely unreasonable.

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You have failed this universe!

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I just thought I could count on you to be the man that I knew. That man was my friend.

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I think I have been so obsessed with proving to people that I am not like my father that I didn't stop and look at all the ways that I am exactly like him.

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I don't believe you. Because you're a liar. You're lying to me, to manipulate me into doing what you want. Adrian, here's the thing. If you are telling the truth... If you killed my son... I am never going to be the person you want me to be. Not ever.

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I didn't make all those sacrifices for a reward, Thea. I did it because it was right, and seeing it proves how much more there is to be done, and I can't do it without you.

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I'm sorry that it worked out that way, and both of you can decide on your own how much you want to hate me and how much blame you want to assign. But, I made a promise to your mother to keep you safe and there is no world, there is no universe, there is no past, present, or future where I break it.

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If I abandon her now, I'm no better than my father. If I can help redeem her, selfishly I feel like I will redeem my family just a little.

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I got arrested in front of my son. Dragged away in handcuffs because of something that Rene did. I don't know how to forgive him. I tried. John, more important, what's Cayden James up to? We don't know. He has known our identities for months. He hasn't outed us. Why? This started with you, with me, and with Felicity. Whatever comes our way, we can handle it. I believe that.

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People still need saving. They still need hope.

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My name is Oliver Queen. After five years in Hell, I returned home with only one goal: to save my city. And I did. I became a hero who helped people. But now it's time for me to be someone else. It's time for me to be something else.

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My name is Oliver Queen. After five years of Hell, I returned home with only one goal: to save my city. But I couldn't honor that commitment and honor the promise I made to the mother of my son. So I asked the best man that I know to help. His name is John Diggle and he is the Green Arrow!

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The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for Purgatory. Now I understand why. The memories, the pain, I've never escaped them. They're always with me, a reminder of what I had to endure. With only one thought, one goal -- survive. To save the Multiverse, I must become something else. To do that, I have to return to where my journey began. Purgatory.

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Because if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong then all of this is for nothing. Do you understand Tatsu? I left Felicity, I left my children. So if, if The Monitor can't fix this and if he is not here to help then all of these things that I have sacrificed and all of the things that so many other people have already sacrificed will have been for nothing! I need my family to live. Which means that I need this to work.

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I have failed this city. Yao Fei. Shado. Tommy. My father, my mother. All that I have ever wanted to do is honor those people.

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I told you that I couldn't be with you and save the city. Neither can Ray. He's just too new at this to know that.

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This is not about strength. This is about heart. Ray, when the mayor was killed, you put yourself in harm's way to save Felicity. Normal people, they don't do that. Heroes do that.

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After you got shot, I realized you needed some extra protection out in the field, asked Lodai to work something up...

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Just because I don't carry a gun, don't think for a second I don't know how to use one.

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I spent my first year back from the island atoning for my father's sins. Looks like I've got one more left.

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In the end, there was only one, a single black infinitude. Then the infinitude found release. And finally, the darkness broke, filling it with life. With the Multiverse. Every existence multiplied by possibility. And spread out before space and time in infinite measure. Civilizations rose and fell. And rose again across reality's grasping expanse. Life, a precious gift, persevering in the face of every obstacle. Until, finally, the age of heroes was born.

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I'm Oliver and he's Barry?

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Well, you just said you were a god. Now, I don't think you're testing us to see if we're strong enough. I think you're testing us to see if we are good enough. And I don't think, in any of the universes you've tested, that anyone has ever stood and confronted you like this.

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That bolt of lightning chose you. Don't ever forget it.

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One more down. A city full to go.

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My name is Oliver Queen.

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The day I went missing... was the day I died. Five years in Hell forged me into a weapon, which I use to honor a vow I made to my father, who sacrificed his life for mine. In his final moments, he told me the truth... that our family's wealth had been built on the suffering of others. That he failed our city, and that it was up to me to save it and right his wrongs. But to do that without endangering the people closest to me, I have to be someone else. I have to be something else.

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The men and women I've targeted are dangerous, corrupt, a virulent cancer. Cancers like James Holder, whose corporation put defective smoke detectors in low-income housing in The Glades. There have been many fires and too many funerals. But cancers can be fought and conquered. All it takes is a surgeon... and the right instrument.

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Leo Mueller, you have failed this city!

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I'm not a hero.

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The other archer told me that somebody compiled the List. I always assumed it was my father. But what if it wasn't?

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Moira Queen, you have failed this city!

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Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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A few years ago, I found a message he left me explaining the List.

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But when you asked me about the island, it reminded me of all the hard things and the hard choices that I had to make that still stay with me.

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My father, the other archer, the Undertaking, whatever the plan is. It's all connected to the Glades.

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You wanted me to save the city. I will. I swear.

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Can Evil truly be stopped?

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You forget. I am the Weapon.

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And you're afraid that that anger is going to burn you up inside if you have to live in the world one second longer knowing that you could do something to fix it. That anger's going to put you in the hospital, kid.

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Guess I'll have to get another bike.

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You don't have to be like him. You can be better.

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Sorry. Self-defense classes. Good way to meet girls.

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John Diggle, this is Anatoly Knyazev. Thank you for meeting us.

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What Yao Fei would say? Shengchún. Survive.

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That's why the city needs me. To do what you can't.

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There's another way, Roy. I can teach you... to control your new ability. And to control yourself. Let me help you.

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You gave up your victim status when the first body dropped.

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Those bastards... they cost me seconds... minutes... minutes where I could've... I could've saved Tommy.

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My name is Oliver Queen. After five years in Hell, I returned home with only one goal... to save my city. And I did. That battle may be over, but there will be others. To protect my friends, my family... my home, I must continue to be someone else. I must be something else.

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The Man in the Skull Mask is dead. Sebastian Blood is dead.

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I've learned a mask can be a powerful thing.

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Thea. It's me. Ollie. It's been a while. I've only gotten texts' from you...

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Since the business with Slade... I can't stop thinking about her. Seeing things from a different perspective.

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I don't have any friends. Other friends.

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Let's say that when I was ready... I went back to Starling City.

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You never knew my father...

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My names is Oliver Queen. After five years in Hell, I have returned home with only one goal... to save my city. Now, others have joined my crusade. To them, I'm Oliver Queen. But to the rest of Starling City... I am someone else. I am something else. I am... The Arrow.

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But whatever has happened, whatever will happen, the way that you make me feel is the best part of my life. You can ask me to say that I don't love you... that I will never lie to you again. You are my always. And I just want the chance to be yours.

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I know that this city has been through tough times before, and we have pulled through. We survived the Undertaking. We survived the Siege. We survived the Outbreak, and somehow, someway, we will survive this. A friend of mine told me that living in Star City, it takes a special kind of tenacity, but we do live here, because this is our home. This is our home! It is our friend, our family, our lives, and we will not-- we will not throw those precious gifts away by descending into chaos. We will look to each other for hope. We will cling to each other for strength, and if we do that, no matter what happens, then we can all stand here united.

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The truth of the matter is that every decision made by any member of my administration is my decision. The buck, as they say, stops with me, because when you are in charge, everything that your team does is on you, and I trust my team.

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You're my brother, John. What happens to you happens to me.

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John referred to you as the Human Target.

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Thea, when you fight fire with fire, you are probably gonna get burned.

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Let my crusade die.

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What the hell has happened to you? Not even Gregor would have done that.

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Cayden thinks that he was collateral damage from a fight that I had in Star City.

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And you trust her enough to risk yourself, to risk the city?

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My name is Oliver Queen.

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