Black script lettering reading you are perfect to me, arched across the lower back in a fine lettering style.

Script quote across the lower back

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows a black script phrase reading you are perfect to me, arched across the lower back of a person wearing a patterned top and dark bottoms. The linework is thin and even, with fluid joined letters and a single black ink tone. The lettering fills the frame diagonally, with the top edge of the garment and the waistband visible at the edges.

Lettering Back Quote Script Phrase

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sign writer's daughter had a steady hand and a dreadful habit of leaving things unsaid until the last possible moment, which is how Marjorie Quill came to be standing in the back room of the Corvin Street print shop at half past eleven on a wet Thursday, holding a pen over a card that had only three words on it. Her father had gone home with his cough. The gold leaf was drying on the bench. Outside, the buses hissed past the window like kettles that had forgotten themselves.

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She had written the first draft in pencil that afternoon, then rubbed it out, then written it again in the looping hand her mother had taught her from a yellowed copybook. You are perfect to me. It looked too plain. It looked like something you might find painted on a bakery van. She tried it sloped, then upright, then with the letters joined so they ran into each other the way Harold's sentences always ran into each other when he was nervous at the counter on a Saturday.

In the end she left it as it was, joined and swaying, and wrapped it in brown paper with the string tied the way her father liked. She left the shop lights on. On the pavement she passed a man wrestling an umbrella, and she thought, quite clearly, that she would give it to him tomorrow, and that he would read it twice, and that neither of them would mention it again for thirty years.