Beautiful Ink Quotes

“Blood in and blood out,” he says, kissing my neck in between his words. “Your fuckin’ choice. But know this: it is forever now my blood that runs through your veins. And I will drown you in it before I let you escape me again.”
― Nicole Reed, Beautiful Ink

“You stole my entire world and I'm not sure how to live in it anymore.”
― Nicole Reed, Beautiful Ink

“Go to dinner with me?” His voice whispers against my ear. I start to shake my head when his fingertip lightly traces the birdcage tattoo on my arm. My eyes shut at the sensation. His touch. “I dream about you almost every night.” Join the club, buddy, I want to tell him. I dream about me every night, too… well, until I met him. Now I dream too damn much about him. “Just one date and I will leave you alone if you never want to see me again. Deal?” I open my eyes to gaze into his. There are too many things happening at once. Everything within me says to tell him no. Nothing good can come of this. I know what I have to tell him. “Dinner, not a date,” I say, looking him square in the eyes. Holy hell! What did you just do, Keller? Really? Seriously? He grins, not hiding his happiness at my words. I step away, allowing him time to button his shirt up. “Dinner then dessert, and, Keller, it will definitely be a date,” he says,”
― Nicole Reed, Beautiful Ink

“It’s him. He is the reason that I have come alive. I take my time, leaning closer to him, letting him see in my eyes what I can’t say out loud. He makes me want to give instead of take, a first for me.”
― Nicole Reed, Beautiful Ink

“Tattooing is more than a job, more than a hobby. It is an intimate, emotional, and powerful thing to be marking someone for life. I am giving over a part of myself forever. In return, I am fully in control of my world and everything around me, if only for that small gap in time. When a piece is carefully thought out and has meaning to my customer, it has double the value to me. I am tied to the art in blood and ink, a part of my soul to be admired by countless others or hidden to be savored only by the wearer.”
― Nicole Reed, Beautiful Ink