"This is me...in all my glory and shame...in honor and defeat...in love and hate...in smiles and tears...in light and dark...in dreams and reality. I am me. I grasp dreams with my hands, no matter how intangible. Love me for me and me alone..."

-Yume Takamiya, Mistress of dreams

"If you draw the Platinum Angel, your opponent cannot win and you cannot lose the game...yet what about the Platinum Angel? She lost when she won...she lost her identity...her sense of self"

-Yume Takamiya, the Platinum Angel

"steel walls on four sides, iron bars and gates makes a cage. Not a prison. A prison, is a state of mind. The feeling that you are forever chained to invisible shackles with no hope of escape. No hope of redemption. No hope of comfort. The only comfort that you’ll ever dream to get is from loneliness and solitude. You may be surrounded by your inmates and the guards, but if you take a deeper look, you realize that it’s only you. You can run towards the horizon and be imprisoned. You can get lost in a sea of crowd and be alone. Sadly, that’s my state of mind right now. Immortality keeps me shackled, my powers and responsibilities gives me eternal solitude...This ‘heaven’ is nothing but a lie. There’s no such thing as a paradise where all your loneliness will vanish. Because if it does exist, then why do I still feel isolated even if I live in paradise? Why do I still feel like I’m being choked even if I’m free? Why do I feel a gaping hole where my heart should be?"

- Shaid the god of life and death; Inevitable Fates by Yume Takamiya

"How ironic. I once believed in love fervently. With all my heart. All my mind. All my soul. I once thought it was beautiful...but how could something so beautiful could turn people into ugly monsters? In the name of love, people die...but in the name of love, I once lived...and died. Because of love, I was broken to pieces and was imprisoned. But is it possible that love could make you whole and set you free? How come when I waited you never showed? No matter how hard I prayed, it all seemed to fall upon deaf ears? Haven’t I waited enough? Even if I have numbed myself, I still hate the fact that I still hope to see your face. Whether to hold you or break you into pieces, I have no idea. But I have known that I have numbed myself a long time ago. In order to bear the pain, it was better to turn those emotions into something useful...something productive. Something I can use to my advantage. But I found myself wanting to erase those emotions I felt altogether. I found myself forgetting them through the centuries. Being alone, quietly existing. Unable to move on because of the burden in my soul. And...I’ve learned to accept the fact that I’ll be alone forever, unable to find solace. But then Shaid came..."

-Loumina Vassel; Inevitable Fates by Yume Takamiya

"We have a predestined course in life yet it is not set in stone. It's up to us whether to fulfill it or not. The Fates can only guide us, but in the end it's our choice. Our free will. What about you? Would you choose to run from your destiny and live a life of pleasure yet always be unsatiated, or face it and be whole yet bear the burden of your sorrow?"

-Yume Takamiya of 'The Fates'

"When destiny calls, no dam could stop its waves from coming. All you gotta do is open it and go with the flow"

-Yume Takamiya, Eye of the Past.

"The term sky's the limit does not apply to the imagination...For there is a whole universe beyond the clouds."

-Yume Takamiya, the Authoress