All The Lies

I thought love would rip my heart out.

I thought it would set me on fire.

Instead, it turned me into ice.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

—Voltaire

but the flesh enjoys it even as the heart shatters beneath it.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

—Voltaire

while I walk away from all of this, knowing the better monster won the war.”

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

—Voltaire

Clever tyrants are never punished.

—Voltaire

To the living, we owe respect, but to the dead, we owe only the truth.

—Voltaire

I thought love would rip my heart out.

I thought it would set me on fire.

Instead, it turned me into ice.

Tears are the silent language of grief.