Amanda (Mandy)

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The novel is the medium which makes it possible for people of ordinary intelligence to communicate their ideas to the world.”
― Virginia Woolf

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
― William Faulkner

“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.”
― David L. Weimer, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice