Cherokee/Introduction

"Fear can be a potent aphrodisiac."
~ Kele Moon, Beyond Eden

"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Stars hid your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires."
~ From The Talented Mr. Ripley

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."
~ Frantz Fanon