- Tommy Merlyn: Now by my rough estimate, you have not had sex in 1,839 days. As your wingman, I highly recommend Carmen Golden.
- Oliver Queen: Which one is she?
- Tommy Merlyn: The one that looks like the chick from Twilight.
- Oliver Queen: What's Twilight?
- Tommy Merlyn: You're so better off not knowing.
- Tommy Merlyn: [leaving Thea's room] Did you notice how hot your sister's gotten?
- [Ollie glares at him]
- Tommy Merlyn: Because I have not.
- [first lines]
- Oliver Queen: The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for "purgatory." I've been stranded here for five years. I've dreamt of my rescue every cold black night since then. For five years I've had only one thought, one goal - survive. Survive and one day return home. The island held many dangers. To live, I had make myself more than what I was, to forge myself into a weapon. I am returning not the boy who was shipwrecked, but the man who will bring to those who have poisoned my city. My name is Oliver Queen.
- Walter Steele: I didn't realize you took Russian in college, Oliver.
- Oliver Queen: I didn't realize you wanted to sleep with my mother, Walter.
- Oliver Queen: I just wanted a second to myself.
- John Diggle: I would believe you, Mr. Queen, if you weren't so full of crap.
- Thea Queen: You did not come back from a deserted island with a souvenir.
- Oliver Queen: It's a hozen. And in Buddhism it means reconnecting. I kept it in hopes in one day, it would reconnect me with you.
- Tommy Merlyn: A rock! That is sweet. You know, I want one of those t-shirts that says "my friend was a castaway and all I got was this crappy shirt."
- Oliver Queen: I never meant to...
- Laurel Lance: She was my sister. I couldn't be angry because she was dead. I couldn't grieve because I was so angry. That's what happens when your sister dies while screwing your boyfriend.
- Dr. Neil Lamb: [speaking of Oliver Queen] Twenty per-cent of his body is covered in scar tissue. Second degree burns on his back and arms. X-rays show at least twelve fractures that never properly healed.
- Robert Queen: You can survive this, make it home, make it better, right my wrongs, but you got to live through this first.
- Oliver Queen: [spotting Thea at his homecoming party] Who let you in here?
- Thea Queen: I believe it was somebody who said "Right this way, Miss Queen."
- John Diggle: [driving] My ability to keep you from harm will out weigh your comfort.
- [but Oliver is suddenly gone from the car]
- Oliver Queen: [SCPD interrupts his homecoming party] Detective. This is a private party.
- Quentin Lance: Yeah, well, there was an incident at Adam Hunt's building tonight. Know anything about that?
- Oliver Queen: [feigning ignorance] Who's Adam Hunt?
- Quentin Lance: He's a millionaire bottom feeder. And I'm kind of surprised you aren't friends.
- Oliver Queen: I've been out of town for a while.
- Adam Hunt: [on the phone] What the hell are you talking about? $40 million doesn't just up and vanish. Untraceable? IT IS $40 MILLION! FIND IT!
- Oliver Queen: Laurel, you always saw the best in me. Right now, that's what you are doing, you're looking at me and you're wondering if that island changed me somehow, if it made me a better person. It didn't. Stay away from me, otherwise I am just gonna hurt you again, but this time it will be worse.
- Laurel Lance: You know what, Oliver? You are wrong, that island did change you, at least now you are honest.
- Oliver Queen: [Voice narrated by Oliver as he walks in his room] After five years, everything that was once familiar is now unrecognizable.
- Oliver Queen: [Looks in the mirror] The face I see in the mirror, is a stranger.
- Oliver Queen: You killed that man.
- Gunman #2: You don't have to do this!
- Oliver Queen: Yes I do. Nobody can know my secret.
- [Breaks his neck]
- Oliver Queen: Hello, Laurel.
- [after Ollie said that to Laurel shocked face]
- Oliver Queen: [go for a walked] You said you would.
- Laurel Lance: Yeah. Everyone's proud.
- Oliver Queen: Adam Hunt's a heavy hitter. You sure you wanna get in the ring with him?
- Laurel Lance: Five years and you wanna talk about Adam Hunt?
- Oliver Queen: [shake head no] No. Not Really.
- Laurel Lance: [stop walk] Why are you here, Ollie?
- Oliver Queen: To apologize. It was my fault. I want to ask you not to blame her.
- Laurel Lance: For what? Falling under your spell? How could I possibly blame her for doing the same thing I did?
- Oliver Queen: I never meant...
- Laurel Lance: She was my sister. I couldn't be angry because she was dead. I couldn't grieve because I was angry... That's what happens when your sister dies while screwing your boyfriend... We buried an empty coffin... because her body was at the bottom of the ocean where you left her... it should have been you.
- Oliver Queen: I know it is too late to say this but I am sorry.
- Laurel Lance: Yeah, I am sorry, too. I had hoped you'd rot in hell a lot longer than five years.
- [Laurel walk away from Oliver and back to work]
- Laurel Lance: [Laurel walked and saw Tommy arrive back at the worked] how'd you think that was gonna go, Tommy.
- Tommy Merlyn: [after he saw Laurel] About like that.
- Moira Queen: Your room is exactly as you left it. I never had the heart to change a thing.
- Walter Steele: Oliver. It's damn good to see you. It's Walter... Walter Steele.
- Moira Queen: You Remember Walter, Your Father's Friend. From the Company.
- [Oliver looked at Raisia]
- Oliver Queen: It's Good to see you, Raisia.
- Raisa: Welcome Home, Mr. Oliver.
- [Look at Moira and Walter]
- Raisa: Mr. Merlin phoned. He Wants to join you for Dinner.
- Moira Queen: Wonderful.
- [Oliver looked at Mom and then heard Thea step come from upstairs]
- Moira Queen: Oliver? Did you hear that?
- [4 people looked at Thea from upstairs]
- Oliver Queen: Hey, Sis.
- [Oliver smiled at his Sister and she smiled back at Oliver and thea walk downstairs]
- Thea Queen: I Knew It. I Knew you were alive.
- [Give hug to Oliver]
- Thea Queen: I Missed you so Much.
- Oliver Queen: You Were with Me the Whole time.
- [Smiled and happy]
- Tommy Merlyn: Dinah Laurel Lance. Always trying to save the world.
- Laurel Lance: Hey, if I don't try to save it, who will?
- Robert Queen: I'm not the man you think I am. I didn't build our city. I failed it. And I wasn't the only one.
- Arrow: [narrating] Adam Hunt. His crimes go deeper than fraud and theft, but he's been able to bully, bribe or kill anyone who's gotten into his way. He hasn't met me yet.
- Laurel Lance: Oh, come on, Merlyn, we both know that you're not a one-girl type of guy.
- Tommy Merlyn: Depends on the girl.
- Oliver Queen: [narrating] The abduction was unexpected. It forced me to move up my plans. But what I told the police was true. The man in the green hood was there in that warehouse, and he's just beginning.
- Oliver Queen: I missed you, Raisa.
- Raisa: No kitchens on the island.
- Oliver Queen: No. No friends either.
- Oliver Queen: [Laurel] 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. Every one of them will wish I had died on that island.