Life is for the living. Now pull yourself together, we still have work to do.

Camila

Teo: I was clear. I told you, I don't want my hands dirty.
Camila: Well, they sure will get dirty when you're digging your way out of one of my husband's graves.

My instincts are seldom wrong.

Camila

In this world, you don't become what you want, you become what you have to.

Brenda

I know you're scared. Use that fear to stay alive. After all, you're a survivor.

Camila

Isabella: Sometimes I think you hate Daddy more than you love me.
Camila: That's not true. I love you much more than I hate him.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

Camila

Teresa: You sat by and let that man be murdered. That's not who I am. That's not who I want to become.
James: Too late.

Sometimes we need lies to survive.

Teresa

Your real family may have abandoned you, but this family won't.

Camila

You think that’s what your job was? Your job was to learn.

James

I should be dead, and I’m not.

Teresa

Queen of the South Season 1 Quotes

You could say that I am living proof that the American dream is alive and well.

Teresa

My name is Teresa Mendoza. I am from Mexico. I was born poor, not that that's bad but take it from me, I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better.

Teresa