# Quote — Nevil Shute, No Highway

> For many years the actress had been out of touch with the hard realities of life. All her working life had been spent in the facile world of honky-tonk, of synthetic emotion and of phoney glamour. Now she was getting a glimpse into a new world, a world of hard, stark facts, a world in which things had to be exactly right or people would be killed. She was beginning to perceive that little insignificant men like Mr Honey were the brains behind that world.

- Author: [Nevil Shute](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute.md)
- Book: [No Highway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway.md)
- Page: 161
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute#No_Highway_(1948)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/for-many-years

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> "If you're going to make your life in a new country you should go before you're twenty-five. After that you start to get associations, little grooves and anchors, that make it difficult to change."

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/if-youre-going.md)

> He was like a little boy let loose in a toy shop, uncertain which of the attractive treasures to pick up first.

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> She did not understand what all that meant, but it was evidently something very near his heart, and so she said, "How splendid!"

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/she-did-not.md)