Close view of a small black lettering tattoo of a two-line quote across the upper back, with dark hair tied up above it.

Quote tattoo on upper back

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows the upper back and nape of a person with dark hair tied up, seen from behind. A small two-line quote in a serif typeface sits in black ink just below the base of the neck, to the right of the spine. The background is dark and softly lit, with the skin tones and black lettering as the main focus.

Lettering Back Quote Text Word Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The bags were already in the hall when Nell came down, the kettle still ticking on the hob behind her. Her son Tom stood on the bottom stair in his good coat, the one that had been his father's, the sleeves turned up twice. Out on the front, the tram bell rang like a warning nobody had asked for.

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'Don't go,' she said, and heard how it sounded, like a girl of six. He laughed the way he had at nine, head down, so she caught hold of his lapel. 'I'll eat you up, I love you so,' she said, the line from when he was small enough to fit in the laundry basket and she would pretend to hunt him through the house. He groaned and let her hold on.

Behind the parlour door, Mr Ostrander, the lodger who had been in room four since the spring, was pretending not to listen. The house had nine rooms and only two of them faced the sea, but the sea got into all of them anyway, in the damp on the wallpaper and the salt on the windows. Nell kept it out with net curtains and a clock that ran four minutes fast.

Tom lifted the bags. At the gate he turned and held up one hand, fingers spread, the way he used to when he was still in short trousers and wanted her to know he could see her. The tram took him past the pier. Nell went back inside, set the clock right for the first time in years, and found the tide had left a line of wet weed on the step, exactly where his boots had been.