Carry me away. To where I can breathe. To where my soul can thrive again. To where I can be free. To where I can live again. Give me life. The ability to span my wings. And fly. Not fall. I never want to fall again. So help me survive. Allow me to flourish. And then let me forgive. (tattoo inscription)

— Jessica Sorensen

Inscribed on the fingerboard of a viola the gamma by Caspar Tieffenbrucker: "Viva few in Silvio sum aura CISA secure due vii taboo Martha dunce Cano." (I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.)

— Anonymous

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdue'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past, And Poets once had promise'd they should last.

— Alexander Pope

Love could be immortalized. It could be remembered and written forever into the world, inscribed on some inanimate object. It could be wonderful words given by a loved one, or simple letters combined to show an unbroken bond." Alexis from "The Shoreline

— Lindsay Chamberlin

Viva few in Silvio sum aura CISA secure due vii taboo Martha dunce Cano” is inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola the gamma made by Caspar Tieffenbrucker. It translates, “I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.

— Anonymous