I will destroy your family to save mine.

Teresa

People die every day trying to come to this country hoping for a better life. You have options. You can be whoever you want to be. People have died for you to have that chance.

Teresa

Tony: It’s not about me killing Pote, it’s me keeping him alive.
Teresa: I don’t understand.
Tony: Those sketches are my nightmares. I draw to get them out of my head so I can sleep, so I can feel normal.

Teresa: Pote killed Tony’s father. He stole from Epifanio.
Javier: Well, those are the rules, you steal, you die.
Teresa: But that doesn’t make sense for a kid. His father will always be his hero.
Javier: That’s why he wants to be a sicario. It’s all he’s ever known. Like my family, like me.

Davis: You pretend to be this honorable man but you're a crook and a liar.
LaFayette: I’m sorry you feel that way, son, but know this, everything I’ve done, I’ve done to take care of you because you can’t take care of yourself.
Davis: That’s not true.
LaFayette: Now who’s lying, son?

Teresa: This is like you coming after me, Brenda, and Tony.
Pote: That’s right. In this life, your family is your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

I’ll trust that you can keep Judge LaFayette’s honorable name out of your dirty little mouth.

Det. Green

Ishmael: What happened to the no collateral damage?
Pote: Ask the mailman’s widow.

Marcel: Murdering a witness under Federal protection, it’s a suicide mission.
Teresa: I know.
Javier: I’ll do it.

Come back to Mexico, primo, I’ll protect you. Stop with the bullshit. Leave this shit behind. We’re family, and if Teresa wants a war, I’ll give it to her.

Boaz

Pote: The other day he thought I fell asleep here on the couch. He pulled out a gun on me.
Kelly Anne: He what? What did you do?
Pote: Nothing, I just lay here waiting for him to pull the trigger but he couldn’t, not yet, at least.
Kelly Anne: So you were just going to let him kill you.
Pote: All my life I’ve lived by the sword, I figure I’ll die by it too.

Pote: I took his father away from him. If someday he has the courage to pull the trigger, it’s okay by me. I’ve made my peace with it.
Kelly Anne: No, that’s not okay with me. You don’t get to go around making crazy decisions without even considering the people who love you.
Pote: You love me? I don’t deserve that.
Kelly Anne: Yes, you do. You are the kindest, sweetest man I’ve ever met.
Pote: I’m also a murderer.
Kelly Anne: Yeah. Well, so am I.

Queen of the South Season 4 Quotes

No one gives you a manual on how to be the boss, so every difficult decision falls on you, and when your people fail you, as hard as it is, you have no choice but to let them go.

Teresa

Running a cartel is like driving a motorcycle a hundred miles an hour in traffic, any miscalculation, any mistake can have fatal consequences.

Teresa