Black handwritten script quote tattooed along a man's forearm, with a brown leather bracelet on his wrist.

Handwritten quote on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A multi-line handwritten quote in black ink runs down the inside of a forearm, set against a white shirt and blue jeans. The lettering is thin, slightly uneven and in a casual script, with the lines stacked closely together. The palette is black ink on skin, with a green hedge in the soft-focus background.

Lettering Forearm Script Handwriting Quote Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dilys had been wrong about the oven for three weeks, and she knew it, which was why she was the one who came in at half past three to rake out the ash. The bakery on Tanner Row smelled of yeast and wet flour. Nobody else was awake except the radio, murmuring the shipping forecast to nobody.

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Taped inside the door of the proving cupboard was a page torn from a school exercise book, the handwriting slanting like rain. She had found it the week her father's shop was sold, and she had not thrown it away. The lines were copied out in pencil, then gone over in ink by someone in a hurry, the words crowding each other: rather let me fail than never to have tried at all. Rule every moment. Seize every day.

Her father had never once said a thing like that aloud. He had kneaded bread at the same bench for forty-one years and called every kind of weather a bit much. She suspected the note was his, written the winter before she was born, and that he had left it for a child who would one day stand in the dark deciding whether to keep going.

She lit the second oven, slid in the first tray of tins, and pressed her palm flat against the cold steel. By storm, she thought, and laughed at herself, and then did not laugh. The loaves came out at six, dark and split along their seams, exactly as they should.