This is Jessica‘s tattoo.
Slaughterhouse-Five was the first book I read that really altered the way I perceived everything. The quote, “everything was beautiful & nothing hurt” means more to mean than I can fully explain, but in short it’s a reminder to myself that in the end you have to focus on the good & the beautiful or you’ll never make it out alive.
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Whenever i get depressed, its always about the cruelty in this fucked up world we live in and i feel like killing myself to be as far away from it as possible. It’s a great tattoo, from a great book…but Slaughterhouse-five was a roller coaster for me. (maybe because i have rapid cycling bipolar disorder with psychotic features). The days i was manic reading it, i was having trouble staying present since i would go back and forward in time and it felt amazing, the days i were depressed i felt so horrible about the bad things billy saw and it made me physically sick that he cheated on his wife (even if it was only once).