15 October: Driving Quotes

Today is Driving Day, so 10 quotes about driving:

1. Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. Mac McCleary

2. Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. E. B. White

3. Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is…to impress your personality on the road. – Martin Amis

4. I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. Corinne Hofmann

5. Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin

6. Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. Anon

7. The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings. Lewis Hamilton

8. It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow

9. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. Jack Kerouac

10. Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Author Unknown

Character birthday

Two Tone, aka Tina Janice Bryant. She is a genetic variant born with a port wine birthmark covering half her face. Her power is absorbing the powers of others when she touches them. As a teenager, she attempted suicide by jumping from a building. She was saved by Jade, a variant able to fly, and absorbed her power. When she hit out at a police officer who was trying to help, Tina let loose a zap bolt, also absorbed from Jade. This brought her to the attention of the Chain Gang, who began a series of tests to figure out the extent of her power. During this process she absorbed numerous powers from members of the group and others she’d encountered, which had Chain and Superwil baffled for some time. In due course, she mastered the use of Henry Moran’s illusion power, and would use it to make her face look normal. As an adult, she has undergone plastic surgery and various treatments to minimise the birthmark, although when on missions with the Chain Gang will use the illusion power to mimic the birthmark. She also underwent a fair amount of therapy to help her accept herself, and in due course, trained as a counsellor herself, and provides counselling to the genetic variant community. She appears in From a Jack to a King and Tale of Two Sisters.

From A Jack To A King

A royal palace is burning. The King and Queen are dead. The only hopes for an ancient dynasty flee to England for their lives.

A boy runs from his mother and the people he believes want to mutilate him, and vanishes, seemingly forever.

Gary Winchcombe, the experimental "super-cop" pursues a notorious gang of bank robbers, and starts to discover that his friends and neighbours have secrets he never could have imagined.

Tod Reynard wants to turn his life around. When he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Jade, he knows she might just be the one to help him change his life for the better. He cannot possibly know just how much.

When Jade's twin sister Gloria is kidnapped, old rivalries must be put aside and new associations formed in order to save Gloria's life and restore the rightful order of things.

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A Tale of Two Sisters

During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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