Fine line black script tattoo reading 'Open your mind, its beautiful inside' running along the inner forearm against a dark leather background.

Script quote on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single line of fine black script reads 'Open your mind, its beautiful inside' and runs diagonally along the inner forearm. The strokes are thin and even, with the letters joined in a flowing handwritten style. The skin is pale and the background is dark brown leather, so the black ink stands out clearly.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Quote Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The soup had gone thick again, and Mags Pelling was hauling the pot off the hob when the new deckhand asked what the words on the cook's arm meant. Nobody had asked in eleven years. Mags had written them there herself, on the back of a ticket she couldn't read properly anymore, and the tattooist had copied the loops from her wobbling hand.

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She told him about the winter the Marguerite lost her starboard rail off Cape Wrath, how the galley stove went out and the bread wouldn't rise, and how a boy named Tobin Ash, who was sixteen and certain he'd drown, sat on an upturned bucket and wouldn't eat. Mags gave him a spoon of barley broth and told him to open his mind, because the inside of a man was the only harbour that couldn't be taken off him by weather. He laughed at her. Then he ate the broth.

Tobin went on to run a chippy in Grimsby and never once wrote to her. But the next spring a parcel arrived at the galley hatch with a tin of Scottish shortbread and a card that read, in careful capitals, THE INSIDE IS STILL THERE. Mags kept the card in her breast pocket until the ink ran in the rain. She never told the new lad that part.