History Quotes / Arrow

->''"[[SpannerInTheWorks I'm so sorry, I thought I had more time.]] [[BrokenPedestal I'm not the man you think I am. I didn't build our city, I failed it!]] [[TheConspiracy And I wasn't the only one!]]"''

->''"Save your strength. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You can survive this.]] Make it home. Make it better. [[TheAtoner Right my wrongs.]] But you've gotta live through this first.'' '''''Survive."'''''

->''"[[ComicBook/BlackCanary She]] [[CharacterDevelopment says the island changed me.]] She has no idea how much. There are many more names on the list. Those who rule my city through intimidation and fear. [[BadassBoast Every last one of them will wish I had died on that island."]]''

->''[[BreakTheCutie "Please. I'm starving. I've never killed anything before."]]''

->''"The police think they know who I am. They think I'm the vigilante. The man in the hood terrorizing the city's criminals. They also think they have me trapped. [[CrazyPrepared That I have no way out. They're only half-right.]]"''

->''[[MeaningfulEcho "No one can know my secret."]]''

'''Oliver''': I think the vigilante needs a better [[CodeName code name]] than The Hood or 'The Hood Guy!'\\
'''Malcolm:''' I agree. How about... [[CallForward Green Arrow?]]\\

'''Oliver''': [[SeenItAll Diggle, there wasn't anything on that island that wasn't twice as dangerous as this pretender, and I survived there for five years!]]

->''[[TheShangriLa "I found myself in a place called Nanda Parbat.]] [[Comicbook/{{RasAlGhul}} I met a man there.]] [[StartOfDarkness He helped me make sense of things. He helped me to find a purpose for my life. To make this city a better place for everyone. Especially for you."]]''

->''[[MotiveRant "If you make the Glades your home, you know who this man is. John Nichol. He owns your tenements. Manages your slums. Provides the leaking roofs over your heads. The lead in your pipes. The asbestos in your walls. Basically, he makes money off of our suffering. But the police aren't interested in helping us. They may have let us down, but I won't."]]''

->''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion "How did you know Sara had her hat with her when she went on the boat?"]]''

->'''Tommy''': He said you wanted to nuke the Glades or something. It's funny, Scotch doesn't make it any more believable. [[SarcasmMode Maybe after your jihad we can grab some steaks.]]\\

'''Tommy''': [[FlatWhat What?]]\\

'''Malcolm''': '''''[[SuddenlyShouting Yes! They deserve to die! All of them! The way she died!]]'''''


->''[[CrazyPrepared "If I've learned anything as a successful businessman, it's redundancy."]]''

->''[[IronicEcho "Oliver Queen! You've failed this city!"]]''

->''[[HiddenDepths "The world doesn't work anymore. It broke a long time ago, but it was like you were the only one who noticed. That makes you angry, and you're afraid, that that anger is going to burn you up inside, if you have to live in that world one more second knowing, that you could do something to fix it. I think it's going to put you in the hospital, or worse."]]''

->''"Sooner or later we all go through [[TitleDrop a crucible.]] I'm guessing yours was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible. The ones who grow stronger from the experience, and survive it, and the ones who die. But there's a third type, the ones who learn to love the fire. They choose to stay in their crucible because it's easier to accept the pain when it's all you know anymore. That's why I'm on the clock to help this city. Before it becomes used to living [[WretchedHive like this.]]"''

->''[[HilariousInHindSight "Human weapons? My god, what's next, aliens?"]]''

'''Oliver''': [[SeenItAll That should tell you something.]]

->''"Give me a break. This ain't no task force. Let's call it like it is. Welcome to the Comicbook/SuicideSquad."''
-->-- '''[[Comicbook/{{Deadshot}} Floyd Lawton]]'''

-->-- '''[[Comicbook/{{HarleyQuinn}} Harley Quinn]]'''

->''"There's a new player we've been tracking, mercenary. He's left a trail of bodies from Macau to Istanbul to Lisbon. A trail that leads right here to Starling. We've been calling him... Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}}."''
-->-- '''[[Comicbook/{{AmandaWaller}} Amanda Waller]]'''

->'''Oliver''': I don't think that I could do something like [[HeroicSacrifice this.]]\\

'''Peter''': [[CharacterDevelopment Maybe not yet.]]

->''"I don't put much stock in augury, but there is a prophecy: [[Main/{{Foreshadowing}} The man that doesn't perish at the blade of Ra's al Ghul will become Ra's al Ghul."]]''

->'''DirtyCop''': [[MeaningfulEcho You're delusional. You're zipcuffed to that chair.]]\\
'''Oliver''': [[MeaningfulEcho I'm sorry, but nobody can know my secret.]]

-->-- '''ComicBook/GreenArrow''', to Rene Ramirez

'''Oliver''': [[BlatantLies Never seen him before.]]\\
'''Kovar''': Except in jail. Where you snapped his neck, because the Bratva told you to do it. Because they told you it could help you get to me. A convenient lie so they could steal his business. And you killed this man, and you give the IP address, of a black market site on the dark web to the Bratva. A site the Bratva now controls, like they control you. Good, evil. Hero, monster. My friend, truth... is a matter of perspective. [[note]] The ''instant'' Kovar finished saying this, [[ShutUpHannibal Oliver stabbed him through the hand with a dinner knife.]] [[/note]]

->'''Rene''': [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness What the hell was that?]] [[Main/{{Lampshading}} I thought I was supposed to be the wild animal...]]\\
'''Curtis''': [[EmbarrassingNickname Wild Dog.]]\\
'''Rene''': [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique ...you totally lost it on that guy.]] [[note]] After John loses control of himself in a mission (because he knows he's missing his son's second birthday) [[/note]]

->''"There's two types of every legacy. Two versions of [[TitleDrop what we leave behind.]] The good, and then the bad. You just really have a lousy habit of focusing only on the bad."''

->''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone "I was reunited with someone from my past, recently. I knew their father. And they told me that I ruin the lives of everyone that I come into contact with. It doesn't matter who they are. It doesn't matter how much I love them. That life turns to ash."]]''

'''Thea''': [[{{Irony}} Only because I was trying to protect you, which is what I am doing now.]]\\

->''[[MemeticMutation "I'm ten steps ahead of you and you haven't even figured out what game we're playing yet!"]]''

->'''Oliver''': [[Comicbook/{{RasAlGhul}} Your father]] [[NobleDemon was an honorable man.]] You've aligned with a psychopath. And he'd be ashamed of you.\\
'''Talia''': [[ArmorPiercingResponse Well, when it comes to the shame of fathers,]] [[NotSoDifferent I shall bow to your superior expertise.]]

->'''Anatoly''': Anatoly Knyazev, [[BrutalHonesty gangster]].

->''[[MemeticMutation "I WANTED TO! AND I LIKED IT!"]]''

->'''John''': I killed my brother, Oliver. And then I was going to let myself rot in prison for what I did. But you told me to atone for what I did as Spartan, and if that's true for me, it is one hundred times truer for the Comicbook/GreenArrow. You don't get to just walk away from this, man. The hood is who you are. You don't think you deserve it, fine. ''Work'' to become the man who does.\\

'''Slade''': [[Main/{{Lampshading}} Seems to be a recurring theme with you.]]

-->--- '''"Adrian"''', [[FamousLastWords the moment before he shot himself in the head]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome and blew up Lian Yu]]

-->-- '''Oliver Queen''' [[spoiler:in a speech announcing his run for Mayor of Star City]]

->''"I've studied you, Oliver Queen. I know everything. Who you love. Who you trust. Who you've hurt. Do you know how easy it was to turn Evelyn against you? How easy it will be to turn them all against you? You're not a hero. You're a killer. And I'm going to show them that. I'm going to show them how everything you touch... dies.'' [[spoiler: Oliver fatally shoots and then unmasks Billy Malone, disguised as Prometheus.]] ''Four years I've waited, to make you answer for your sins. I told you, Oliver, everything you touch.. dies."''

-->-- '''Oliver's''' responding HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath, as a montage of his friends crying and suffering plays, including [[spoiler:John's recapture]]

-->-- '''"Laurel Lance (Earth Two )"'''

->''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "There are parts of the world where death is an illusion. I've been to one. I learned to be very convincing."]]''

'''Oliver''': [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Then it'll be fine.]]

'''John''': [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Just ask for help. You don't have to do this alone, Oliver.]]

-->--- '''"Adrian"''', [[FamousLastWords the moment before he shot himself in the head]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and fucking blew up ALL OF LIAN YU]]

Quotes from the Creator/DCComics TV adaptation ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. [[YouHaveBeenWarned Be advised,]] this page contains many spoilers.

->''"When I was her age, you and Dad let me get away with murder. [[note]] [[IThoughtItMeant Not literally]] [[/note]] Looking back, I could have used less space, and more parenting."''

->''"Give me a break. This ain't no task force. Let's call it like it is. Welcome to the SuicideSquad."''

-->-- '''GreenArrow''', to Rene Ramirez

->'''John''': I killed my brother, Oliver. And then I was going to let myself rot in prison for what I did. But you told me to atone for what I did as Spartan, and if that's true for me, it is one hundred times truer for the [[Comicbook/{{GreenArrow}} Green Arrow]]. You don't get to just walk away from this, man. The hood is who you are. You don't think you deserve it, fine. ''Work'' to become the man who does.\\

->''[[MemeticMutation "I'm ten steps ahead of you and you don't even know what game we're playing yet!"]]''

-->--'''Kovar''', on Oliver

-->-- '''Oliver''', revealing his deepest, darkest secret regarding killing.