The things we read in the books we love often stay with us for a long time, but for some, they stay forever — literally. Tattoos based on books [1] are a beautiful way of keeping our favourite literary memories, characters, and quotes [2] alive even after we've turned the last page. We've rounded up some artistic interpretations of famous works — from the Harry Potter [3] and Hunger Games series to Pride and Prejudice and The Little Prince. Read 'em and weep!
— Additional reporting by Lauren Harano and Tara Block
Harry Potter Book Page Stars
Anaïs Nin Quote
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
"You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!"
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . And one fine morning — so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Work: A Story of Experience, Louisa May Alcott
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour, J.D. Salinger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
A hobbit hole!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
"Until the very end."
Harry Potter, Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Percy Jackson
"Books are proof humans can do magic."
The Hunger Games Mockingjay Pin
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
"Are you, are you coming to the tree / wear the necklace of rope / side by side with me."
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: 'Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?' My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
"Not all those who wander are lost."
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Nancy Drew and Hamlet
"This above all: to thine own self be true."
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."
"Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and Anne of Green Gables
"I conscientiously believe so." — Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
"How ardently I admire and love you." — Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think." — Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Endymion, John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" (written in Jane Austen's script).
Books Quote
"[Through books] I've lived a thousand lives."
J.R.R. Tolkien's Amalion Tree
Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
"How embarrassing to be human."
The Elder Wand, Harry Potter Series
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
"Every atom of me and every atom of you."
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Hamilton: The Revolution, Jeremy McCarter and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Martian, Andy Weir and The Dark Series, Christine Feehan
Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
King of Cats, Paul Galdone
The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Dark Half, Stephen King
Looking For Alaska, John Green
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
