Two black script lettering tattoos, one reading Don't live in fear of the future on a forearm and one reading 'Cause I'll always be there on a shoulder.

Script quotes on forearm and shoulder

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The top photo shows a black script quotation, Don't live in fear of the future, across the inside of a forearm, with the lettering set on two lines. The bottom photo shows a second script quotation, 'Cause I'll always be there, on a shoulder, with the person wearing a pink top. Both tattoos use smooth black linework with solid ink and no colour.

Lettering Forearm Shoulder Script Quote Text Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ruth had the kettle on for the third time that morning when the postman finally knocked, and she read the envelope standing up, the way she read everything from Lowestoft now. Tom's hand had gone looser since the spring, the letters leaning as if they wanted off the page.

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Mam, the cook says the Baltic run will take eleven weeks, not six, and I've stopped counting days because it makes me sick. Don't write me about the chapel or Mrs Dunn's hip. Tell me about the gull on the washing line.

She put the letter on the oilcloth and went out to the line. The gull was still there, a fat grey thing with one foot missing, pacing the coping stones as if it owned the sheets. She told it nothing and took her time with the pegs, shaking each shirt out hard before she folded it.

Writing back took the rest of the afternoon. She tried three openings and crossed out two. In the end she wrote what her own mother had once copied out for her on the day she married a man who went to sea: Don't live in fear of the future, love, it has enough of its own to be getting on with. Underneath, smaller, she added the thing she had been saving. 'Cause I'll always be there. Post it before the tide turns.