Two lines of black handwritten script reading Dream without fear and Love without Limits on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.

Dream without fear and love without limits lettering

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows two lines of cursive handwritten lettering in black ink on a white background. The first line reads Dream without fear and the second reads Love without Limits, both with thin, even strokes and a loose, slanted script style. The composition is a wide, simple layout with the text centred and no shading or colour.

Lettering Script text Dream Fear Love Quote

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You will think me foolish for writing on wax when the ink pot by the door is still good, but Tacitus the courier says the road south is thick with mud, and a wax tablet keeps its words better than a frightened hand keeps its nerve. I have spent three nights at the scriptorium in Eboracum trying to draft this letter, and each morning I scraped it smooth again.

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You asked me, before the ship sailed, whether I was afraid of the sea. I told you no. I lied, and you knew it, because you always could read my face better than the tablets I ruled. What I should have said is what the old master used to chalk above the lintel of the copying room, the words you copied so carelessly that he made you do them again: dream without fear. Then, beneath it, love without limits. He thought the second line was the joke. I think it was the instruction.

So here is my instruction, sister. Keep the lamp lit on the north wall. Pay Hanno the two denarii for the fuller's debt before the feast of Saturn, and do not let him argue about the weight. When the letters from Gaul arrive, read them aloud to Mother first, slowly, because her eyes are worse than she admits.

The tablet is nearly full and the wax is cooling against my thumb. Write back on the first ship that comes home. Tell me the sea was grey and you were not frightened. I will believe you, and I will know you are lying, and that will be enough.