Black and white photo of a fine line script quote reading The ones that love us never really leave us, tattooed along the side of the ribs.

Script quote along the ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A black and white close-up of a person's side torso showing two lines of cursive script in black ink, reading The ones that love us never really leave us. The linework is thin and even, and the lettering sits diagonally across the lower ribs with the ink crisp against soft skin shading. A hand is partly visible at the right edge, and the background is dark and out of focus.

Lettering Fine line Ribs Script Quote Text Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mum cast off from Brindle Lock with the tiller under one arm and her tea balanced on the gunwale, the way she had done every morning for thirty-one years. I was nine, perched on the coal hatch counting swans, the only job anyone trusted me with.

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Dad kept the log in pencil, every lock and every rain-soaked mile, in a slanted hand that leaned as if walking into a headwind. Most pages were tallies. But on the last page of the old book, under the date we passed the Kingsbridge slipway, he had written two lines and then left them alone, no underlining, no comment, just the words sitting in the middle of the paper for whoever opened the book next.

Mum sold the Marigold the spring I turned sixteen. The new owner wanted the gold lettering scraped off the cabin side, and the signwriter asked if I was sure. I stood on the towpath while he worked, and when the last of the name came away I looked down into the cut. The water had taken my reflection and the boat's stern together, and for a moment the letters were still there, backwards and wavering, until the ripples flattened and the surface went back to being just water.