Black fine line script tattoo of the words the will to live will always outweigh the ability to die, across the ribs.

Handwritten quote along the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a skin-toned side torso with three lines of black cursive lettering running diagonally across the ribs. The words read the will to live will always outweigh the ability to die, written in a thin, even monoline with a slightly looping hand. The background is softly blurred, and the shallow focus keeps the lettering sharp.

Fine line Lettering Ribs Quote Word Script Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, the flour sack in the back room has gone damp again, so I've propped it on the rack above the proving cabinet where the heat sits. Shift it before the four o'clock batch or the bags turn sour and the whole loaf tastes of cellar. The yellow tin on the second shelf is yours to use now, not mine.

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Mrs Okafor came in on Tuesday asking for the dense rye, and when I told her we'd sold out by half five she stood in the doorway a long while with her coat buttoned one hole off. I gave her the heel of the sourdough in a paper bag instead. She said her husband always fought over the crust. I didn't ask more, and she didn't offer.

There's a card pinned beside the till that your mother wrote out the week before she left for Lisbon, in that looping hand of hers. It's a line about wanting to live being heavier than the other thing, the one none of us likes to name. I never asked where she found it. I thought it was a recipe at first, the way she underlined it.

The first tray is cooling now. The window has gone from black to the colour of weak tea, and the crust is ticking and crackling as it shrinks. Come in early tomorrow. I'll leave the lamp on for you.