Mandatory Ink!

I already have one that's a literary reference. there is a french children's book called Le Petit Prince (the little prince) that is very profound. I have ink on my ride side from my back to front along the ribs that says

"Te deviends responsable, pour toujours, de ce que tu as apprivoisé"

translated - "You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

In the book the little prince "tames" a wild snake as well as a rose he falls in love with. I think it reminds me to never underestimate the effect you may have on others and their lives, as well as to be aware of letting someone "tame" you and what would happen if you later lost them.

A rose, with a galaxy contained in the swirls of the petals. Dark Tower reference. SK.

Always love another DT fan!!!

"Tomorrow is another day" (Gone with the Wind)

I think I would get some of the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin on me...in some fancy font...
This song reminds me of my father. Makes me wish he had taken the time to change the road he was on....

"there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on."

"You're not putting that in THERE!"
- my ex wife

You taught me not to read the forums while at work. I cannot stop laughing, but can't tell my coworkers why!

"With joy which death alone can still"

Line from the song Carmen Ohio, which has meaning to me in many ways.

Fear Nothing, But Fear Itself

i might get something relating to this poem. not huge on poetry but this has always been in my mind.

George Gray



I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me --
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire --
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.


Edgar Lee Masters

"inviolate"

from a passage in Jane Eyre

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point." / "The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing." -Blaise Pascal

or

"J'aime et j'espere." / "I love and I hope." - from a necklace that Thomas Jefferson had made for his daughter.


Apparently I'm all about the French.

I have a winter tree drawn by a friend of a friend. it represents the tree that Ethan Frome tried to hit on the sled with his girlfriend. There's very deep meaning to me... a lot of people laugh at my tree, but its so unique and would take a lot for anyone not in my head or my mindset to understand

I hadn't seen my best friend for 10 years. This was my own doing. We hadn't had a fight or anything and I thought of her often. She would invite me over to visit and I would find excuses not to.

Then came the call one day that she was ill. Deathly so and it broke my heart to think of losing her. I went to her house to see her and said something flip like,"Some people will do anything to get me over!" We laughed and she said, "Whatever it takes."

She died 3 days later. I had her last words inked on my forearm and I use it as my ticker. Love you Mary.

A powerful story and powerful message. Thanks for posting it.

If I didn't go with John Donne, another option is Voltaire "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be" on one arm and Billy Corgan's "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in the cage" on the other just to be confusing.... It'd have to be a small font, I've got tiny arms.


Or the Torah's

"The day is long
The work is hard
The reward is much
The master is urgent"

Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!

Dr. Seuss

I have SEVERAL that I've been playing around with for years.
I already have an appointment to get "Always" done in a pretty font with the 'A' actually being the Deathly Hallows symbol. My twin sister will be getting the same one after she pops out her second baby in November. It was SO hard to narrow down my HP choices, but this is the one we both really loved and it's simplicity appeals to me.
I WILL have a Bukowski quote on me somewhere, but I haven't decided which one yet. The front-runners are: "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." and "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
Vonnegut's "So it goes" is probably going to end up on my body at some point, as well.