Arrow Season 4 Episode 23 "Schism" Graveyard 37:16 - 38:16
Felicity: You okay?
Oliver: No. It's Thea and John.
Felicity: Them leaving has to be a blow.
Oliver: They are leaving because of their own personal darkness. I can't help but think they we're infected by mine.
Felicity: Maybe. Like you said, maybe you can't subcome to the darkness maybe even a little bit. But you where able to defeat Dark by giving the city it's hope back.
Oliver: Are you saying this is all black and white?
Felicity: I am saying there is a man who killed Dark in cold blood. And that same man stood on top of a car and gave the city it's hope back. What your feeling isn't darkness it's a schism. You are at war with two sides of yourself.
When you quit, it is always a personal war with yourself. There is a schism between the person who wants to run from the world and the person who wants to face the reality. Nicotine provide a false shield from the reality, the darkness. To stay quit we can not run from that darkness, we must stand tall and face it. This causes a schism, a delma, a choice. Either we must subcome to the darkness, run, hide and uses nicotine as a blanket to protect us. Or we must stand and use the truth to free is from our own twisted reality. In the end it is only ourselves that control our desnity. Either we live under false pretenses and let our addiction control the outcome or we accept the darkness and show us the direction towards the light.
