Kelly Anne: This is the FBI we're talking about, not some local yahoos with a Sheriff's badge. We should be on the first flight out of here. How does Teresa not understand that?
Pote: Because she came from nothing. And once you've been hungry, you'll do anything not to feel like that again.

My boyfriend, Guero Davilas, worked for the cartel. When Guero was killed, he left everything to me to build a better life, so that's what I did. All I'm trying to do is be a legitimate business owner, but between corrupt law enforcement and everyone assuming I'm a criminal, I can't make that happen. So that's why I've come to the FBI.

Teresa

You are the kindest, most generous woman that I have ever known, with so much love in your heart that you have no idea what to do with it. And our baby, our baby, is going to love you as much as I love you.

Pote

The first thing you learn is the war never ends. Recovery is an everyday struggle. No matter what you try and do, you're never truly safe. And those demons that you want to forget, lock them in a box; they'll keep coming after you, reminding you of everything you want to forget. Everything you've ever done wrong. Everyone you've ever failed. All the damage you've caused and the people you've lost, and you'll want to give in. Just take a hit. Just have a drink. But it's a choice, an excruciatingly painful and impossible feeling choice. But for me, today, I'm going to choose to keep fighting. I'm going to choose to keep the demons at bay.

Kelly Anne

Pote: After what happened to Tony, I swore that no child would ever be close to our business, but that was before. Hey, look at me. I swear, I will never let anything bad happen to our baby. He's going to have everything I didn't have as a child: safety and money.
Kelly Anne: And love.

I don't like keeping secrets in our family, and neither does Teresa.

Pote

This is New Orleans. We don't let people murder our own and get away with it, not even a Mexican cartel.

Capt. Gamble

Now I've got half of New Orleans out for my head. It's enough to turn anyone into a traitor.

Dumas

I know my timing sucks, and my style's not your style, but that mother fucker should have died the first time he stuck his hand out. You know it, and I know it.

Boaz

Teresa: You know I was paying Lafayette. I can pay you.
Captain: You're offering me blood money.
Boaz: It spends the same.

You wouldn't want to bring a child into this world. Trust me, I know. Losing Kique was the worst thing that happened to me.

Boaz

Dumas: Walking away, it ain't that easy.
James: It's hard leaving your people behind. It's why I came back.
Dumas: You came back because you're in love with her.

Queen of the South 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