He`d imagined that many of the qualities that drew him toward her --intelligence, a sense of humor, shared values -- would prevent him from seeing her as an object of sexual desire. Corrine seemed unselfish and morally taut, which Luke had imagined, when he first met her, might protect him from being fatally attracted to her.
- Jay McInerneyThe dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
- Robert Falcon ScottFalsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right
- Charles Caleb Colton