Two people with matching black script tattoos on their ribs, one reading together forever never apart and the other reading maybe in distance but never in heart with a small heart.

Matching script quote tattoos on two sets of ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

Two people stand side by side showing their bare sides, with hands resting on each other's waists. The left tattoo is a line of black script reading together forever never apart, and the right is a matching script line reading maybe in distance but never in heart, ending in a small heart. Both are fine black linework on skin, with a plain, close composition.

Lettering Ribs Script Quote Heart Matching tattoo Couple

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit nearer the stove and mind the poker. Nobody tells this one unless the beck has frozen solid, and this year it has, so I will. Two sisters, Ada and Winifred Hebden, kept the high farm above Skelder after their father walked off to the mill towns and never sent word. The land was split between them along a drystone wall, and for thirty winters they spoke only through the gate, passing eggs and bad news across it in a wicker basket on a rope.

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It was Winifred who wanted the ink. A tinker called Thole came up the lane one December with a case of needles and a pot of soot mixed with sheep's tallow, and he was glad of a warm kitchen and a bowl of broth. Winifred paid him with a fleece. Ada paid him with the last of the good candles. Each sister had the same words put on her side, small and slanted, so the other could read them only if she stood close enough, and neither would say which of them had asked for which line first.

The wall came down the spring after the great thaw. Men from the council wanted the stones for a new bridge, and the sisters, who had never once agreed about anything, stood on either side of the last course and watched it go. When the gap was wide enough to walk through, Ada stepped across and Winifred stepped across, and they met in the middle with their arms around each other. Neither of them looked at the basket on its rope. They didn't need to, because by then the words had been said out loud so many times that there was nothing left to pass over the gate.