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And Oliver, he’s not like your father, hon.

#this is so important.#because for most of her life felicity only remembers the man who walked away from her.#the man who left her.#the man who didn’t think she was enough to stay for.#and so she decided long ago that she wasn’t going to let a man dictate her life.#she wasn’t going to let a man define her.#because she couldn’t be that little girl sitting at the window waiting for her dad to come back home.#and then cooper happened.#and again…she watched as he fell away from her.#and then he was torn away from her.#and she closed her heart off even more.#so when oliver came around.#she couldn’t even accept that she might have feelings for him more than the slight attraction because that meant opening her heart.#and she’d closed that off to anything too deep for the fear of losing someone again.#for the fear of getting so lost in someone else only to have them walk away.#so for her mom to tell her this.#to reassure her that this man loves her.#loves her more than felicity even knows.#to reassure her that oliver is not her father.#that he’s not going to leave her like her father left her mother.#that is huge for felicity smoak.#that is a weight she’s been carrying around ever since she realized she was falling head over heels in love with oliver queen.#because she knew this could happen.#but now she realizes that losing yourself in someone else doesn’t mean you are lost.#it means you’ve found yourself in that other person.#felicity hasn’t lost herself in oliver.#she’s found herself.#just like he’s found himself in her.#and the biggest part is that they are doing it together.#they’re in this relationship together. (via @hopedreamlovepray)