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F: "Mom what are you doing here?"

D: "I came to see you, for a visit. Didn't you get my text?"

F: "Mom to send a text you actually have to press send on the text."

D: "Oh OK, not a big deal, I'll do it right now."

 

I died.

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“Do we even know a fraction of what happened to you the five years you were away?”

 

Felicity's response to Oliver's "Why didn't you tell me about any of this?" I really liked Emily's delivery here. It could have easily come across as accusatory or maybe even defensive, but it just came out as a simple explanation: We don't tell other people everything. Even Stephen's deliver was spot on. He wasn't mad or, again, accusatory. He just wanted to know why Felicity never shared something this big with him. It was a nice moment between the two of them.

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There are just sooo many!  I'm rewatching S1 and just noticed this thread.  

 

S1:19

Setting the scene:  Crazy Count Vertigo...girl dies...Tommy...etc.  A man in a hoodie buys vertigo from a dude on a couch and walks out.  As he leaves, he lifts the hoodie and we see that it is Diggle.

 

Back in the Lair:

 

Digg:  "Alright!  Person of color has successfully purchased your drugs."

Felicity:  "For the record? I offered."

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There is the scene in the beginning with Ted and Laurel and he pulls a move she wasn't expecting. (I'm doing this from memory so it probably isn't exact.)

 

"You look flustered."

"Try pissed."

 

I laughed because all I could think about was how the audience thinks Laurel is portraying one emotion and it is meant to be another. It was ironic.

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Felicity: This dress costs more than my apartment.

Ray: Yeah, it's couture, which I'm pretty sure is French for "expensive."

[Felicity sniffs the dress]

Ray: So, dinner? Purely platonic.

Felicity: There is nothing platonic about couture.

 

Dr. Pressnall: If you'll permit a professional observation, you could use a little therapy yourself.

Arrow: What gives you that impression?

Dr. Presnall: You mean apart from the mask and the Robin Hood costume?

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Diggle: You really don't care about my marriage, do you?

Oliver: Well, I would if you and Lyla were still married.

 

Arrow: You're not SCPD.

Argus guy: Unless police uniforms have gotten really interesting, neither are you.

 

Amanda: According to HKPF, Cheng planted an explosive device somewhere in Hong Kong. I need you to talk to him and find out the bomb's location.

Oliver: So I'm just going to talk to him and he's going to give me information?

 

Cisco: We want to see the Arrow cave.

Felicity: We don't call it that. Ever.

Cisco: But I want to see the toys. I need to see the toys. Do you guys have an Arrowmobile?

Oliver: Don't touch that. Or that.

Roy: Since when did we start selling admission to the Arrow cave?

Oliver: [to Felicity] You see what you've done?

Cisco: Red is so much cooler than green.

Roy: I'm really starting to like this guy.

 

Barry: I need some dinner. That salmon ladder made me hungry for sushi.

 

[barry flashes in with his sushi]

Caitlin: Hey! Secret identity!

Barry: They're married.

Diggle & Lyla: We're not married.

Barry: Or together, whatever. He told her about me.

[Diggle shakes his head]

Barry: You didn't?

Diggle: I keep secrets for a living, man.

Barry: Oh, my bad.

 

Barry: I cannot believe you're a member of the Russian mob!

Oliver: Former member - probably.

 

Barry: I had eight seconds to kill. Was that wrong?

 

Barry: You tortured that guy.

Oliver: I interrogated him.

 

Cisco: Yo, who was that hottie?

Roy: My ex-girlfriend.

Felicity: Oliver's sister.

Cisco: So stay away is what you're saying?

 

Oliver: You live in Central City where it's sunny all the time and your enemies get cute nicknames. You're not in Central City. I live in a city where my best friend was murdered, where a woman that I loved was shot full of arrows and sent tumbling off of a rooftop, where my mother was murdered right in front of me so before you-

Barry: My mother was murdered in front of me too. But I don't use my personal tragedies as an excuse to just torture whoever pisses me off.

Oliver: I'm sorry, Barry. I'm not as emotionally healthy as you are.

Barry: What's wrong with you?

 

Diggle: I remember a world where people didn't kill each other with boomerangs.

Cisco: Or walk on water.

Roy: Barry can walk on water?

 

Cisco: Press the emblem on your suit. I installed a mini cam on there last week.

 

Barry: You can inspire. Not as the Arrow. That guy's a douche.

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Oliver: I'm sorry, Barry. I'm not as emotionally healthy as you are.

Quite possibly the best quote in the entire series.

Although "Mine's bigger." was RIGHT up there. :P

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Oliver: Like mind control? Really? That's a thing?

 

Ray: To protect the people of this city. And I want you to help me.

Felicity: Why does this keep happening to me?

 

Oliver: Felicity, I don't know if I'm a killer anymore. I do know two things. The first is that I'm someone who will do whatever, whatever it takes to save my sister. 

Felicity: And the second thing?

Oliver: I love you.

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Felicity stepping into the elevator, looking at her phone message from Oliver:  "I have to go.  Work."

Palmer calling after her as the door slides shut.:  "But you're at work."

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Ra's al Ghul standing over Oliver's bleeding body.

 

“Forgive and have mercy on him.  Excuse him and pardon him.  Make honorable his reception.  Protect him from the punishment of the grave.  And the torment of the fire.”

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Watching the crossover eps again; this one's on the Flash side.

 

Caitlin: What brings you back to Starling City? Not Barry?

Felicity: No, not Barry. This? Not happening. We looked down that road and we said, ‘No, thank you.’

Barry (very quietly and a little annoyed): They get it.

 

And to make sure this stays on topic ... from 3x03:

 

Felicity to Ray: I told myself that I would stand firm on a few points. No late-night emails. No personal errands. And definitely no coffee. There will be no espressos brought to you by me. I stand very firm on that last point.

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Diggle: This suit is too tight.

 

Diggle: I'm more of a Glock kind of guy.

 

Malcolm: I wouldn't recommend texting during a real fight.                

 

Laurel: This isn't the first time I've heard that Oliver is dead.

 

Malcolm: I'm sorry to interrupt.

Felicity: We really need to change the locks.

 

Malcolm: [Oliver]'s death means my own.

Felicity: Good.

 

Felicity: I gotta go to work.

Diggle: You really don't.

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Diggle: You really don't care about my marriage, do you?

Oliver: Well, I would if you and Lyla were still married.

 

Arrow: You're not SCPD.

Argus guy: Unless police uniforms have gotten really interesting, neither are you.

 

Amanda: According to HKPF, Cheng planted an explosive device somewhere in Hong Kong. I need you to talk to him and find out the bomb's location.

Oliver: So I'm just going to talk to him and he's going to give me information?

 

Cisco: We want to see the Arrow cave.

Felicity: We don't call it that. Ever.

Cisco: But I want to see the toys. I need to see the toys. Do you guys have an Arrowmobile?

Oliver: Don't touch that. Or that.

Roy: Since when did we start selling admission to the Arrow cave?

Oliver: [to Felicity] You see what you've done?

Cisco: Red is so much cooler than green.

Roy: I'm really starting to like this guy.

 

Barry: I need some dinner. That salmon ladder made me hungry for sushi.

 

[barry flashes in with his sushi]

Caitlin: Hey! Secret identity!

Barry: They're married.

Diggle & Lyla: We're not married.

Barry: Or together, whatever. He told her about me.

[Diggle shakes his head]

Barry: You didn't?

Diggle: I keep secrets for a living, man.

Barry: Oh, my bad.

 

Barry: I cannot believe you're a member of the Russian mob!

Oliver: Former member - probably.

 

Barry: I had eight seconds to kill. Was that wrong?

 

Barry: You tortured that guy.

Oliver: I interrogated him.

 

Cisco: Yo, who was that hottie?

Roy: My ex-girlfriend.

Felicity: Oliver's sister.

Cisco: So stay away is what you're saying?

 

Oliver: You live in Central City where it's sunny all the time and your enemies get cute nicknames. You're not in Central City. I live in a city where my best friend was murdered, where a woman that I loved was shot full of arrows and sent tumbling off of a rooftop, where my mother was murdered right in front of me so before you-

Barry: My mother was murdered in front of me too. But I don't use my personal tragedies as an excuse to just torture whoever pisses me off.

Oliver: I'm sorry, Barry. I'm not as emotionally healthy as you are.

Barry: What's wrong with you?

 

Diggle: I remember a world where people didn't kill each other with boomerangs.

Cisco: Or walk on water.

Roy: Barry can walk on water?

 

Cisco: Press the emblem on your suit. I installed a mini cam on there last week.

 

Barry: You can inspire. Not as the Arrow. That guy's a douche.

Seriously, "I'm not emotionally healthy as you are" should be the tagline for most the characters/show.... Cuz emotional health does not seem to be a priority in Starling City.... Loved that line, probably one of my favorite of the series!

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Roy: What the hell do you think you're doing out there?
Laurel: The same thing as you.

Roy: I've had training from Oliver and years on the streets. You have a law degree.

 

Laurel: The Canary sends the same message. They fear her.

Diggle: No, Laurel. They fear your sister.

 

Ray: I'll help in whatever way I can.

Felicity: And by "help," you mean money and counsel, not a suit powered by dwarf star alloy that fires lasers at people.

Ray: Well, they aren't lasers. That would be ridiculous.They're compressed hard light beams. And that don't actually fire because I can't get anyone, specifically you, to help me fix the nanochip.

 

Oliver: Your penicillin tea tastes like penicillin.

 

Tatsu: The line between grief and guilt is a thin one.

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Thug: Are you that red streak I've been reading about on tv?

Roy: Wrong city.

 

Felicity: I'll send Aresenal over once the next brush fire is out.

Quentin: Arsenal? What, are you guys just pulling names out of a hat now?

 

Roy: Captain Lance.

Quentin: Harper.

Roy: I'm not sure what you, uh...

Quentin: Look, I see you wearing a red hoodie. I see you shooting arrows at people. You think I don't recognize you with a little extra leather and lace?

Roy: Well, I guess I won't be needing this anymore. [turns off voice changer]

 

Roy: So Brick killed Malcolm's wife. What does that have to do anything?

Felicity: It is just another reason for them to share bunk beds in hell.

 

Roy: They were using walkies.

Laurel: Do you think that you could, I don't know, use those signals to locate Brick?
Felicity: You haven't been down here that much.

 

Laurel: Felicity, that's the Glades precinct.

Roy: Well, it's not like the police are using it.

Felicity: Great, we can add irony to the list of charges against Brick.

 

Felicity: Someone please tell me how this is happening...again.

 

Roy: So how does this work? Do we vote?

 

Laurel: Is what we're doing crazy?
Roy: I've learned it's better to ask that question when I'm not wearing a mask.

 

Oliver: Killing [brick] won't balance the scales.

Malcolm: When you have killed 503 people including your own son, you tend not to worry about scales.

 

Sin: Thanks for bringing the cops back. Words I never thought I'd say.

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Laurel: Fighting for your city isn't selfish. It's what a hero would do.

Oliver: You're not a hero.

 

Chase: You still haven't told me - what did you think of my set last night? Cause fangirls on vine called it epicly epic.

 

Thea: Apparently insomnia is a side effect of finding out your brother's a vigilante. You smell like smoke. Korean BBQ?

Oliver: C4.

 

Thea: You know, I've been wondering. How do you decide between the red hoodie and the one with the mask?

 

Thea: I felt pretty lame not recognizing my own brother just because he's wearing a hood.

 

Roy: You tagged Laurel with a tracer?

 

Zytell: You should be dead. I salute your persistence.

 

Chase: I almost took it personally when you said I was simple.

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Laurel: Fighting for your city isn't selfish. It's what a hero would do.

Oliver: You're not a hero.

 

Chase: You still haven't told me - what did you think of my set last night? Cause fangirls on vine called it epicly epic.

 

Thea: Apparently insomnia is a side effect of finding out your brother's a vigilante. You smell like smoke. Korean BBQ?

Oliver: C4.

 

Thea: You know, I've been wondering. How do you decide between the red hoodie and the one with the mask?

 

Thea: I felt pretty lame not recognizing my own brother just because he's wearing a hood.

 

Roy: You tagged Laurel with a tracer?

 

Zytell: You should be dead. I salute your persistence.

 

Chase: I almost took it personally when you said I was simple.

Because I didn't watch the episode last night, were these lines actually said? For real?

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Malcolm: John.

Diggle: My friends call me Digg. You shouldn't even speak to me.

 

Malcolm: Oliver mentioned you were having some identity issues though he didn't mention about your delusions of grandeur.

 

Oliver: Hey! I told you Merlyn was off limits!

Laurel: I know. And then I realized that I didn't really give a damn.

Oliver: This is why I keep secrets from you.

 

Oliver: This isn't justice. It's vengeance.

Nyssa: Vengeance IS justice.

 

Roy: You don't want Thea to live with the guilt of getting her own father killed. But how is her brother dying any better?

Oliver: I don't plan on dying,

Felicity: That's what you said the last time you went to face Ra's and how did that turn out for you?

 

Oliver: Roy told you?

Thea: Roy AND Laurel. They both think you're out of your mind. Me? I know it for sure.

 

Diggle: I don't want to go out like Butch and Sundance so what's the plan?

Oliver: Shoot straighter than they do.

 

Oliver: Every time I close my eyes, all that I can see, all that I can hear, feel, is the fall. I couldn't live like that. I couldn't live knowing that there was someone out there who beat me.

Diggle: Makes sense.

Oliver: No, it's egotistical and insane.

Diggle: So is putting on a mask and jumping off rooftops.

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I'm collecting all the "justice" taglines in one place here:

 

  • "I"m the justice you can't run from."  (3x10 dialogue line by Laurel)
  • "Justice is the new black."  (3x11 video promo and 3x13 tweet/facebook promo)
  • "Justice has a new face in Starling City."  (3x15 tweet/facebook promo)
  • "Vengeance is justice."  (3x15 dialogue line by Nyssa)
  • "There is more than one path to justice." (3x16 tweet/facebook promo and 3x16 dialogue line by Oliver)
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Thea: We really need to stop having these "thank God you're not dead" reunions.

Oliver: I agree. I'm working on it.

 

Oliver: You still need training.

Laurel: When are you going to stop telling me that?

Oliver: When you no longer need training.

 

Felicity: Oliver, what are you doing here? I mean, it's nice to see you.

 

Oliver: Where are you going?

Thea: To buy my evil dad some soup.

 

Oliver: What did you do to [Thea]?

Malcolm: I encouraged her to kill me. My version of being a supportive father.

Oliver: You know, you really are insane.

 

Felicity: John might have told me about your employment offer from Evil, Incorporated. He also might have told me that you may be considering it which is, by the way, insane. They're the League of Assassins. That is not the name of a nice group.

 

Felicity: So that's a "no" on the whole victory dance thing?

Oliver: You know me - I don't dance. But I do occasionally say thank you.

Felicity: You're welcome.

Oliver: And you were right.

Felicity: A "thank you" and a "you were right." I should really be recording this.

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More from 3x16 (The Offer)...

 

Oliver:  “One of them [Murmur] had his lips sewn shut.”
Felicity:  “Is that a real thing?”
Oliver:  “Apparently.”
Felicity:  “If only I had known I had that option

 

Oliver (to Felicity):  “I started all of this because of my father, to … right his wrongs. It became something more, but I never stopped to think about ‘it’ or about ‘why’… until you asked me to.”
 

Felicity:  “So... that means a pass on becoming the most handsome demon’s head ever?”
Oliver:  “It means I’m not ready to give up on what we’re doing here.”

 

Felicity (to Oliver): “You know you’re always saying how you just want me to be happy? Well, the thing is… as long as you’re in my life, I am.”

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More from 3x17...

 

Diggle (to Oliver):  "No, that's all right, we'll Photoshop you in, brother."

 

H.I.V.E. Drone (to Deadshot) and Deadshot (to Cupid, Diggle and Lyla):  "For people like us, love is a bullet to the brain."

 

Roy (to Felicity and Oliver):  "Ray built a supersuit? That's kind of awesome [Oliver glares at him]... and reckless."

 

Oliver (to Felicity):  "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."

 

Felicity (to Ray):  "You have no idea what he's been through, what he's lost, how he's grown. But I do. I know him better than almost anyone. Oliver didn't do this."

 

Oliver (to Ray):  "I have nothing to prove to [Felicity], but you do. She chose you, so trust her.”

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This thread needs more season one. 1x04

Diggle: You really did lose your mind on that island.
Oliver: I found a couple of things along the way too.
Diggle: Like, what, archery lessons?!

 

 

Diggle: Oh, that boy’s long gone, man.

 

Diggle: You are fighting a war, Queen. Except you have no idea what war does to you. How it scrapes off little pieces of your soul. And you need someone to remind you of who you are, not this thing you’re becoming.

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Felicity:  ...So he built a suit.  Out of military grade technology.  And he wants to put you in jail so he used my software to track you down and he scanned you with his X-rays and nowheknowsyou'retheArrowandhe'sgonnatellthecops.

 

Oliver:  Palmer knows I'm the Arrow?  *Felicity nods*  And he has his own mission to protect the city?  WHEN WERE YOU GONNA TELL ME THIS?

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Oliver: "I didn't study Shakespeare at ANY of the four schools I dropped out of".  

 

I don't know why that line just tickles me and makes me guffaw every time. Maybe because it was so out of left field. Stephen's line delivery just slays me. That might be my favorite line in all of Arrow to this point.

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Queen sibling banter from 1x06 and 1x07

 

Oliver: Snap!

Thea: No one says that anymore.

Oliver: What?

 

Thea: Just bite the bullet and have a Cobb salad with the woman.

Oliver: You know sometimes it's difficult to remember which one of you is my mother.

 

1x10 (I think, this marathon is starting to throw me off)

Oliver: Tommy told me you were being very protective of your drawers. This is not a fancy term for your underwear.

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Oliver: Snap!

Thea: No one says that anymore.

Oliver: What?

The whole back and forth between Thea and Oliver imitating Moira's descriptions of Carter Bowen's achievements is beyond adorable.

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[Felicity, Roy, and Laurel show up at Diggle's]

Oliver: How's Ray?

Felicity: So much better than you right now. Please tell me you have a brilliant plan.

Oliver: I don't even have a regular plan.

 

Diggle: We can't stay [at the lair]. It's not secure anymore.

[HA! After watching Malcolm, the kids from The Flash, and just about anyone off the street stroll into the lair, I don't think the lair was ever very secure]

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Mama Smoak (to Felicity):  “Did you just have hospital sex?"
Felicity: "No! Oh!"

Mama Smoak: "I’ve always wanted to have hospital sex!”
Felicity: “Way TMI!  Gross!”

 

Mama Smoak (to Felicity): "You don't love Ray.  Because you're in love with Oliver."
Felicity: “You don’t even know Oliver. You met him for like ten seconds.”
Mama Smoak: “I knew it in five. Honey, you lit up like Christmas when he walked in the room."

Felicity: "But he's... terminally unavailable."

 

Mei (to Oliver) and Oliver (to Felicity, Diggle and Roy):  “You have no idea how powerful the truth can be.”

 

Oliver (to Felicity, Diggle and Roy): “You’ve followed me this far. I need you to follow me just a little bit further - until its over.”

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I'm collecting all the "justice" taglines in one place here:

 

  • "I"m the justice you can't run from."  (3x10 dialogue line by Laurel)
  • "Justice is the new black."  (3x11 video promo and 3x13 tweet/facebook promo)
  • "Justice has a new face in Starling City."  (3x15 tweet/facebook promo)
  • "Vengeance is justice."  (3x15 dialogue line by Nyssa)
  • "There is more than one path to justice." (3x16 tweet/facebook promo and 3x16 dialogue line by Oliver)

 

Add:

  • "There is no justice without sacrifice."  (tweet/facebook promo for final 5 eps of season 3)
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1x16

Tommy: Why should I trust you?

Oliver: Because you always have.

Which goes along nicely with:

Oliver: I'm not gonna hurt you, Felicity.

Felicity: How do you know my name?

Oliver: Because you know mine.

1x17

Oliver: “You want me to kill her?”

Diggle: “I think you would have a long time ago if she looked like me instead of the T-Mobile girl.”

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3x18--in the foundry after Oliver has turned himself in

Diggle:  We can't stay here. This place isn't secure any more.

 

(me:  What do you mean "any more"?  It practically has a swinging door by now.)

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Oliver: Stop calling it a "team up," Ray.

 

Ray: How many abandoned warehouses do you think are in this city? I'm genuinely curious.

 

Oliver: Do you get this anxious when I'm out in the field?

Felicity: I honestly can't think of an answer to that question that won't get me in trouble.

 

Oliver: You need to trust your instincts, not just your tech.

Ray: My instinct is to trust my tech.

Oliver: When I'm out in the field, my bow, my arrows - those are just tools. I'm the weapon.

 

Roy: Just remember that was without arrows.

 

Ray: I'm really hoping you played video games as a kid.

 

Tatsu: What example are we setting for our son if we have a hope to save millions of innocent people but only save ourselves?

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More quotes from 3x19...

 

Oliver: "We need to grab my back-up weapons cache in the secondary lair."

 

Ray (out in the field): "Still nothing. Not a visual sighting or any other reading at all from the Atom. And when I say Atom, I mean the suit, not myself in the third person."
Oliver (to Felicity):  "There's a decent chance that you and Palmer are related."

 

Felicity: "You have sacrificed everything to be the Arrow. Even you and me. But... whether or not you break Roy out of Iron Heights, there is no more Arrow. Ra's took that from you."
Oliver: "I was told once that a man cannot live by two names. Well, right now, I can't live by either. So I don't know who I am"
Felicity: "I know who you are. Whether you're in a suit or under a hood, you're the man that I-- you're the man that I believe in."

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Tatsu: You stole a car?

Oliver: I borrowed it.

 

Felicity: Even if a magic hot tub were not crazy talk, we're not going to let you go and join the league of psychotic murderers.

 

Felicity: I need a favor, a really big favor.

Ray: The last time you asked me for a big favor, I had to loan you my helicoptor.

Felicity: I don't need your helicoptor. I need your jet.

 

R'as: There's one immutable truth about life. It is often more cruel than it is fair.

 

R'as: Embrace the pain for it is your soul finally being unburdened.

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