- Magda: Why does she call you Coyote?
- Maria Vega: It is my spirit guide. A hunter of the night.
- Magda: I could give you a better one. Why not raven or bat or tigress? Why that sad, little dog?
- Maria Vega: I am a dog. That is my strength.
- Tiago Vega: [to Molly] You ever been in a place where there's no right answer? Everything you do is gonna be wrong. So you do something. And you know it's wrong. And you live with it. It's not a compromise, it's not a mistake. It's a sin.
- Sister Molly Finnister: Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. I shave the faces of mine. The ones at the soup kitchen, anyway.
- Maria Vega: My family may be at the center of this chess game of yours. But we are not pawns. We are kings and queens. And the blood of the Aztecs runs through us. The soldiers of the Revolución walk beside us. And as long as I draw breath from my lungs, I will claw through mud, I will climb hills, and I will fight you to the end of days.
- Councilman Charlton Townsend: You're a cutthroat advisor, Alex, but maybe we need someone who actually knows how to cut a few throats.