“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”

- From Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

This is Heather’s Twilight tattoo.  Heather is a YA librarian who says that “this line embodies the spirit of all the books”.

(81 votes, average: 1.85 out of 5)

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This tattoo is on Aaron, who “regardless of the boy spelling,” is indeed a lady.

The So it Goes tattoo I got after having my beloved cat Jello Biafra put to sleep last year. He was only four. We never really were able to figure out what happened to him, but he gradually lost the use of his front legs, our vet’s best guess was some sort of small tumor on nerve endings. We spent a lot of money and time (driving four hours to see a veterinarian neurologist, taking out a credit card specifically for the vet bills) trying to make him better, but in the end we weren’t able to save him. Some of his ashes were mixed into the ink for this tattoo.

This was posted as a part of “So it Goes” Saturdays.  The phrase “so it goes” appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five 116 times.  Can you help me collect 116 “so it goes” tattoos?  10 down, 106 to go.

(20 votes, average: 4.70 out of 5)

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Kristin submitted this picture of her dust jacket tattoo, as well as a picture of the original illustration.

This tattoo is based on an illustration by John Alcorn in Books! (1962), written by Murray McCain.

(16 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5)

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“But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up if you love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky. But believe me- it’s better to look at the sky than to live there. Such an empty place; so vague. just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear…”

- Excerpt from Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

This tattoo is on Coco:

I went alone to the best tattoo place in DC (Jinxproof – I wouldn’t go anywhere else!) to get my pretty painful rib tattoo and it was one of the most exhilarating and empowering experiences of my life. I would definitely recommend going alone to get a personal tattoo– it felt fantastic!

(22 votes, average: 4.73 out of 5)

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Jim Genzano explains his tattoo:

The tattoo says “Elendil,” the name of a character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, written in Tolkien’s Tengwar script.  In the Elvish language Quenya, the name means “elf friend” or “star lover.” Elendil’s name written in this fashion was often used as his badge and a device on his seals.  I got the tattoo – my first – as a memorial tattoo after the death of my friend Star.  I liked the “star” connection, and also Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings had a huge effect on me growing up and is still my favorite series of novels.  Star was also a fan.

(20 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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This tattoo is on Nikki.

This was posted as a part of “So it Goes” Saturdays.  The phrase “so it goes” appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five 116 times.  Can you help me collect 116 “so it goes” tattoos?  9 down, 107 to go.

(10 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)

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This tattoo’s owner says:

Look Homeward, Angel is my favorite book of all time and a book in which I consider life-changing- the language and the rich linguistic elegance in which the book was written struck me so, so hard. Before this, I just didn’t know anything could be so beautifully written. Aside from the language, the simple story of Eugene Gant and his family was enchanting. I always considered myself an extremely nature-inspired person, at least on the inside, and I thought ‘hill-haunted’ was a great way to describe that.

“Hill-haunted, whose vision of the earth was mountainwalled, he saw the golden cities sicken in his eye, the opulent dark splendors turn to dingy gray. His brain was sick with the million books, his eyes with the million pictures, his body sickened on a hundred princely wines.”

- Excerpt from Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

(9 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)

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This tattoo was submitted by Blackmagickbarbie, who says that her tattoo is “copied as verbatim, from the font to the punctuation.”

(I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze, I cannot get out, said the starling).

- Excerpt from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

(18 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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Nieninque’s tattoo is from The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.  It is Tolkien’s original illustration of Smaug for the book’s first edition.

(23 votes, average: 4.22 out of 5)

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This is Jess’s tattoo:

The design is an abstract dandelion. I just thought it exemplified the sentiment perfectly. I got this tattoo about a month after Vonnegut’s death.

This was posted as a part of “So it Goes” Saturdays.  The phrase “so it goes” appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five 116 times.  Can you help me collect 116 “so it goes” tattoos?  8 down, 108 to go.

(23 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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