Bea Miller added this handwritten tattoo between her ghost and maple leaf in December 2017. It says “we are all going” which is a line from the John Green novel Looking for Alaska. She shared a picture of the tattoo on her instagram along with a photo of her copy of the book, showing the context for the quote. The paragraph in the book says:

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

It is about accepting that we cannot change our own mortality and the impermanence of everything and everyone around us.

Handwriting Tattoo by @davehtattoos On @beamiller ?? • • Appointment text 626-4288 343 • #tattooshop #tattoo #ca #california #generation8tattoo #Family #ink #tattoo #tattooart #instagood #instagramer #instagramhub #inked #losangeles #melrose #beverlyhills #hollywood #art #is #lifestyle #fineart #finelinetattoo #tattoo #tattooart #tattooink #tattoostyle #ink

A post shared by Generation8Tattoo (@generation8tattoo) on Dec 30, 2017 at 6:44pm PST

thank you @generation8tattoo , as always. (uncertain why i’m being attacked for writing in a book? i didn’t cross anything out i just highlighted something meaningful, i don’t feel that’s defacing it in any way)

A post shared by beatrice (@beamiller) on Dec 31, 2017 at 1:10pm PST

Celebrity: Bea Miller

Subject:Writing

Placement:Forearm

Theme:Death Inspirational let go Literature Quote

Style:Black Ink Handwriting

Tattoo Artist:Dave Hatton Generation8Tattoo

posted by Linda on February 13, 2018