- Reno: [Speaking of his and Shane's shared past] He and I were disciples, you might say. Yeah, that's what the wolf called us. His disciples. He was an old man, our teacher. Well, he knew about everything there was to know. He taught us as much as he could.
- Marian Starett: Shane, that man in Grafton's, who is he?
- Shane: Somebody I knew a long time ago.
- Marian Starett: He looked so strange. Was he a gunfighter?
- Shane: Yeah. We both learned from the same man, like he said. He was a strange old man. He's dead now. But he's one of those people who never die in your thoughts. I keep expectin' to see him.
- Marian Starett: Tell me about him, the old man who taught you.
- Shane: You don't want to hear.
- Marian Starett: Why? Was he that bad?
- Shane: Bad? No. He was strange. He knew things. You could look into his eyes and see all of time, every man that had ever lived, suffered, and died. He was bitter and tough. He liked to think of himself as a wolf. He called us his cubs, Reno and me. Taught us everything. And he said that...
- Marian Starett: That what?
- Shane: That one day we'd kill each other. If we didn't learn from living, if we didn't understand, we'd destroy each other. And then he'd laugh.
- Marian Starett: Is that why you're scared of him?
- Shane: Yeah.
- Rufe Ryker: This is my town! You can't put...
- Reno: You don't have a town anymore!
- Sam Grafton: Rufe, no use gettin' yourself killed.
- Augie: Let him speak his peace. I like seeing a man dig his grave with his mouth.
- Rufe Ryker: There's room enough in this valley to bury all of ya.
- Shane: Now I'm begging you. Stay away from that town.
- Rufe Ryker: Stay away? From my own town? You just don't know me very well, Shane.
- Shane: And you don't know what you're dealing with.
- Rufe Ryker: Why, Shane, you're scared. Aintchya? Well, I ain't!
- Tom Starett: Mighty bound and determined. Well, that's Ryker.
- Shane: That was Ryker. Tomorrow morning he'll be dead.
- Shane: You'll never die, Ryker. You might turn to stone like a petrified tree, but you'll never die.
- Rufe Ryker: Yeah, that's the way I figger.
- Reno: Well, he said it would come to this, didn't he?
- Shane: Yeah. He said a lot of things. A good gun should be clean and in its holster. A really good gun doesn't ever need to be drawn. You remember that, Reno?
- Reno: I remember. Sure looks like we're right up against it, doesn't it? Just like he said.
- Shane: Just because he said it, doesn't mean it has to be.
- Reno: You're wrong, Shane.