Adoption Tattoos Quotes

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Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?
Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1))
Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.
Lisa Akers (Let Me Go (Let Me Go, #1))
The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike
Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs)
It'd been years since Neil stood in the same room as Kevin [...]. Everything about him was different. Everything was the same, from his dark hair and green eyes to the black number two tattooed onto his left cheekbone. Neil saw that number and wanted to retch. Kevin had that number back then, too, but he'd been too young to have it done permanently. Instead he and his adopted brother Riko Moriyama wrote the numbers one and two on their faces with markers, tracing them over and over anytime they started to fade. Neil didn't understand it then, but Kevin and Riko were aiming for the stars. They were going to be famous, they promised him.
Nora Sakavic (The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1))
A complete back tattoo, stretching from the collar of the neck down to the tailbone can take one hundred hours. Such extensive tattooing, then, became a test of strength, and the gamblers eagerly adopted the practice to show the world their courage, toughness, and masculinity. It showed, at the same time, another, more humble purpose - as a self-inflicted wound that would permanently distinguish the outcasts from the rest of the world. The tattooing marks the yakuza as misfits, forever unable or unwilling to adapt themselves to Japanese society.
David E. Kaplan (Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld)
The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him a date
Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs)
Kaz,” she asked suddenly. “Why crows?” “The crow and cup? Probably because crows are scavengers. They take the leavings.” “I don’t mean the Dregs tattoo. That’s as old as the gang. Why did you adopt it? Your cane. The Crow Club. You could have chosen a new symbol, built a new myth.” Kaz’s bitter coffee eyes remained trained on the horizon, the rising sun painting him in pale gold light. “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too.
Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2))
In the early years of the Civil War, she continued to lecture and make other celebrity appearances. She visited the Old Ladies Home in New York City, where she bought a needlepoint bookmark in the shape of a Latin cross. She shopped in Boston. She visited the Abbotts in 1863. And in 1864, she learned that the Mohave leader who had orchestrated her adoption into the tribe was coming east. After a chain of events on the Colorado that Olive could never have imagined during her life as a Mohave, Irataba, now a Mohave diplomat and leader revered by whites, was in the city after a visit with President Lincoln in Washington. She bought herself a ticket to see him.
Margot Mifflin (The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West))
I still know this place and its people to the marrow of their bones, to their soft, unguarded core, which had once sustained my own life, yet I am as much of an outsider here as I am on the other side of the world, in my adopted country. The truth is that there is no bridge between the two lives - the past and the present - that would conveniently span the memory of loss and the promise of an onward search. There is only a wound, the inner divide of exile. A daughter of an anatomy professor, I should have known that sliced hearts do not become whole, that split souls do not mend. Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land.
Elena Gorokhova (Russian Tattoo: A Memoir)
Earlier, he’d sent Tom away when Polas launched into his stilted explanation of the first mate’s tattoos. As soon as the old man described them as slave tattoos, Baltsaros had been glad he had dismissed the first mate. Now he was unkindly forcing Tom to adopt the role that he swore he would never be in again. He frowned at Tom. “Polas said that the only way we could pass within the city walls without drawing attention is with a slave. I’m sorry, Tom, but you’re going to have to come to terms with this. It’s just an act… It’s not like you’re going to have to bow and scrape to me, and I will do everything in my power to keep you from facing any abuse.” Tom grunted against his forearm and raised his sea-green eyes to Baltsaros’s. “Fine,” he muttered, his jaw tight and brows creased. Though surly, Tom’s answer would have to do. The captain nodded, and then let out a short sigh.
Bey Deckard (Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires (Baal's Heart, #2))
The triumph of Oatman’s story was in what she achieved both as a captive and on her return. She assimilated twice: first, as a Mohave, where the evidence is overwhelming that she was fully adopted into the tribe and that she ultimately considered herself a member. She was taken at a vulnerable age, had no known family to return to, and bonded with the family that both rescued her from the Yavapais and gave her their clan name. She submitted to a ritual tattoo, bore a nickname that confirmed her insider status, and declined to escape when the Whipple party appeared in the valley or through the many Quechan runners or local Mexicans who could have carried a message to Fort Yuma for her. By the time Francisco came looking for her, Olive had become a Mohave, and almost certainly didn’t want to go “home.
Margot Mifflin (The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West))
Isn’t it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?
Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1))
In 1924, now seventeen, Richard was a fanatical nationalist and anti Semite. He joined the Swedish National Socialist Freedom League, one of the first Nazi groups in Sweden. Isn’t it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?
Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1))