Quote by Sloane Kennedy

“When he lifts his arm to wrap around me, "I can finally make out the words of his tattoo: pain is a reminder you're…

— E.K. Blair

“We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them…

— Shirley Corder

“My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see,…

— N.R. Walker

“What cannot be seen: our crumpled childhoods, our scarred wrists, how we hated our bodies, how hard we tried, your needle marks? my envy.”

— Brigid Lowry

“I love the pain, which isn’t excruciating but is incredibly, infuriatingly persistent, accompanied by the endless whine of the tattoo gun, marking me forever.”

— Roxane Gay

“When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.”

— Warren Ellis

“I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.”

— Clementine von Radics

“This is for you, for us. I wanted a tattoo of you on my skin, because I can't show you the one you've already…

— Gina L. Maxwell

“That night had been the first time I’d felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel…normal. It was…

— Kim Harrison

“My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless”

— Colleen Hoover

“Tattoos were self-expression at its rawest and most permanent form. They weren’t for one set of people or another.”

— Karina Halle

“You're a disease and its terminal.”

— Martin Boyle