Ashley

“Loving someone wasn’t enough if I didn’t show it. Appreciating them wasn’t enough if I didn’t express it.”
― Ana Huang, King of Greed

“a paper titled “The Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestibility,” he claimed to have achieved the impossible: he knew how to replace “true memories” with “false ones” in human beings without their knowledge. In case the CIA didn’t grasp the significance of this, he put it in layman’s terms: “It has been found to be feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual and, through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place, but that a different (fictional) event actually did occur.”
― Tom O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

“The CIA wasn’t even supposed to operate on domestic soil. What could they have been doing messing around with an acid-soaked cult in Los Angeles? And if Whitson had been close enough to the murders to stop them, why didn’t he?”
― Tom O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

“O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys! To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on! To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports, A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,) A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.”
― Walt Whitman, The Complete Walt Whitman