Black script lettering tattoo reading The fear of suffering is far worse than the suffering itself, running down the upper arm towards the elbow.

Quote tattoo along the upper arm

Lettering · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a forearm style lettering tattoo set in a black, serif script that runs in several lines down the upper arm towards the elbow. The ink is solid black with no shading or colour, and the letters are crisp and evenly spaced against pale skin. The background shows a denim sleeve, a studded strap and a grey top, with the text filling most of the frame.

Lettering Upper arm Quote Text Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

At the wedding in Cold Ashby, the fiddler had only reached the second reel when Edwin Tarrant set down his cup and began to shake. His bride, Nan Coyle, had been to the well that morning and seen the blacksmith's boy with his arm in a sling, and Edwin had heard the story three times since, of how the bone cracked and the boy screamed. He told her he could not stop thinking of it. Every hammer strike across the valley sounded to him like that crack.

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Nan took him out past the byre to the old ash tree where the parish kept its bell rope. She spoke plainly, the way her mother had, and told him she had been afraid of the sea since she was small. When she finally went out in her uncle's boat, the water lay flat as a plate. The waiting had been the worst of it. The fear had sat in her chest for a year before she ever felt a wave.

Edwin asked what she had done about it. She said she had stopped waiting and climbed in. He asked whether it had hurt. She said the water was cold, and that was all.

Then he went back inside and danced with her until the candles guttered, and nobody in Cold Ashby ever heard Edwin Tarrant speak of the blacksmith's boy again.