“There’s no living with a killing. There’s no goin’ back from one. Right or wrong, it’s a brand… a brand sticks. There’s no goin’ back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her… tell her everything’s alright. And there aren’t any more guns in the valley.”

– Shane (Alan Ladd), Shane (1953), screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr., additional dialogue by Jack Sher, based on a novel by Jack Schaefer