Ink tattoo ideas

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Black handwritten script lettering on a white background, reading a quote about ink and breath, styled as a lettering design.
Handwritten script quote about ink and breath
Palm of a hand with a single black Chinese character tattooed on each of four fingers, shown in a sepia photograph.
Chinese characters tattooed on four fingers
Black ink script reading Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning, inside a stippled dotwork circle with two small stars, drawn as a lettering design.
Peter Pan quote in a dotted circle with stars
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quote set in a typewriter-style font, running down the forearm.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a quill rising from an ink pot with birds in flight, above the script words By words the mind is winged, on the upper back.
Quill, ink pot and birds with script quote
Vertical black brush calligraphy of stacked Japanese-style characters on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body visible.
Vertical brush calligraphy design