It's been 2 years since I started watching the tv show Arrow on The CW, and I haven't stopped talking about since, just ask the people in my life and they'll tell you just how much I talk about it. As crazy as this might be to say this but I really have fallen in love with this show and have become quite attached to the characters and their storylines. There are people out there they say, "They're fictional, as in, not real." And they would be right. But just people get attached to book characters, it's just as easy to get attached to tv show characters.

Here 8 times that Arrow nailed life, love, loss, and everything else in between.*

*Spoilers ahead for those who haven't seen the show.

1. "It's my life, my choice." -Felicity Smoak

Crazy bad guy on the loose and the plan that Team Arrow came up with involved putting Felicity in danger. Oliver (Queen) and (John) Diggle are super protective of Felicity and don't want her to do this, but she tells them that it's ultimately up to her because it is her life.

The same goes for, well, pretty much everyone. When it comes to your life, it's your choice and not anyone else's.

2. "You got to let someone in." -Thea Queen

Thank the Lord for Thea. Oliver had got back from 5 years on an island and experiencing unimaginable things, and he successfully avoids the topic. After getting sick of this, Thea tells him this. He needed to let someone see the darkness inside, because you'll end up slowly killing yourself if you don't.

This is more evidence that we can't get through life without letting someone in and showing them the darkness inside. It's extremely hard to be this vulnerable, but keeping it inside just might hurt worse.

3. "Whoever he is, he's willing to sacrifice an awful lot to help the people of this city." -Felicity Smoak

My girl Felicity tells this to a character who spent most of the season trying to capture the Hood (a.k.a. Oliver). This character had good reason for wanting to arrest the Hood who spent this season killing the bad people in his father's book, and Felicity knew this but she still defends Oliver as she knows how much he's sacrificed to help this city.

This goes to show that loyalty isn't blindly following someone. It's knowing the good and bad about someone and yet still choosing to stand by them.

4. "So maybe we can just accept each other. Not for who we were but for the people we are now." -Oliver Queen

Before Island Oliver was your average billionaire playboy. After Island Oliver is a mystery. He tells this to Thea to partly get her off his back, but also because he realizes that neither Thea or he are the same since he's come back and worrying about who they were isn't going to work.

After a huge change, people aren't the same and must accept for who they are now, not for who they once were.

5. "No woman should ever suffer at the hands of men." -Sara Lance

Sara knows this from her own experiences with suffering at the hands of men, which is partly the reason why she becomes her own hero as then Black Canary.

6. "Hard choices require bravery." -Oliver Queen

This one doesn't need any context because it's pretty self-explanatory, but I would like to add my two-cents in anyway. "Hard choices require bravery" not just to make them, but to be ready for what good or bad happens after.

7. "Marriage is about inclusion. It's about leaning on your partner when things get complicated." -Felicity Smoak

Oliver and Felicity were engaged. Oliver hid something big (and human-sized) from her and lied about it. This is part of Felicity and Oliver's talk and how Oliver should have leaned on her when things got complicated, like realizing you have kid.

This speaks to those entering marriage or are thinking about marriage. While I can't speak from my own experiences, I can speak about watching my parents leaning on the other when my mom was diagnosed with cancer and when my dad was seriously injured after a fall.

8. "We will cling to each other for strength, and if we do that, no matter what happens, then we can all stand united." - Oliver Queen

With this one, I don't think there's much for me to add.