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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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tattooing
tattoos
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Sylvia Plath |
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I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
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inspirational
tattoos
first-aid
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Warren Ellis |
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Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
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humor
love
tattoos
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Laurie Notaro |
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He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women.
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temptation
tattoos
chest
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
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tattooing
tattoos
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Henry David Thoreau |
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"It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who I've been- so I never forget who I am and how I got here."There was humour in the smile she offered him. "And you know what the real beauty of it is?" Hank had shaken his head. "Nobody can take it away."
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identity
tattoos
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Charles de Lint |
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There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.
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tattooing
tattoos
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Truman Capote |
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You get a tattoo like this and a 'do like this, and wear a shirt where the tattoo shows, and you walk into a room of people and feel the animosity, the disapproval, the how-dare-you. You can feel it coming off them like heat off a stove. And the thing I want to ask them is, how have I deserved this, what have I done that so offends you? I have not asked you to cut your hair this way. I have not asked you what you thought of it, or to approve it. So why do you feel this way towards me? If you can't get past my 'too--my tattoo--and my 'do--the way I got my hair cut--it's only because you have decided there are certain things that can be done with hair and certain things that cannot be done with hair. And certain of them are right and proper and decent, and the rest indicate a warped, degenerate nature; therefore I am warped and degenerate. 'Cause I got my hair cut a different way, man? You gonna really live your life like that? What's wrong with you?
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hairstyle
mohawk
tattoos
tattoo
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Harry Crews |
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And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.
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tattoos
tattoo
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Herman Melville |
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He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!
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tattoos
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Ray Bradbury |
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I touch the double row of silver hoop earrings hanging from his left ear, trail along his jawline, his neck, down his shoulder, to the flaming tail of the dragon on his arm. He leans into the caress, and my own body feels on fire with the continued way his eyes gaze upon me. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now--inside and out--all I see is beauty.
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rachel-young
isaiah
tattoos
earrings
danger
touch
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Katie McGarry |
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"Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. "Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul."
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tattoos
tattoo
soul
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Kim Harrison |
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"Where did you get your tat?" "Aaron's shop. You want to get a tat?" he asked, grinning as if this was hilarious. "I have one," I said, rolling the ball into the gutter. "It's not finished though." "How come?" "My brother interrupted the tattoo and I never had the money to get it done again." "No, I meant how come you're such a bad bowler? Is it genetic?" he asked. "Like do you come from a long line of people who can't make a ball roll in a straight line?" "You're hilarious." "I try, Pixie Dust."
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pixie-dust
vaughn
tattoos
lark
hilarious
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Bijou Hunter |