You need to give the monster an identity. It’s only when the monster becomes someone else, something else, that you’re free to be Oliver Queen.
We’re not ghosts. What we lost doesn’t define us. Maybe what we do. Maybe. Or maybe what we’re running from.
Very few of us want to be what we are.
Remember what you are and what you are not.
People are surprising. And what you do isn’t necessarily who you are.
People are gonna think whatever they want about you, no matter who you’re dating. Your job is to not give a s***. Concentrate on the music. Ignore the noise.[to Hailey]
Other people’s definitions of you? Sometimes they’re more about making themselves feel better. You gotta define yourself.[to Blundetto]
It’s tribal. They use plumage to identify themselves, which makes them easily fooled.
If 90% of your life is playing the cover, then you are the cover.
I knew if I wanted to be an astronaut, I couldn’t let people see certain parts of myself. Been that way my whole life.
I have to be who the f*** I am. Because the end of the day, that’s all I got.
I got no identity. Even Brendan Filone’s got an identity. He’s dead.
