#aids

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. ↗

— Ice T

#also #deadly #happen #kind #scary

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#aids #anything #bush #doing #even

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#ago #aids #came #capacity #challenges

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency. ↗

— Bono

#anyone #been #development #discovered #done

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS. ↗

— Steve Tyler

#because #doing #getting #gotten #grateful

I saw a movie once that said that two people in a family aren't enough. ↗

— Rebecca Salas

#mermaids #family

How do you always know just what to say?" I ask. His laugh rumbles through me. "Practice, I guess." I pull back and give him a quizzical look. "I spent three years imagining what I would say to you if you were mine," he says, tugging me close. "I should hope I know what to say now that I've got you. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#fins-are-forever #lily #lily-sanderson #mer-people #mermaids

Pleased to meet you," Tellin says, shaking me out of my reverie. "Lily told me much about you last weekend." "Funny." Quince throws me a questioning glance. "She didn't mention you at all. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#fins-are-forever #lily #lily-sanderson #mer-people #mermaid

Are you afraid of dying?" "I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares me so much as not being alive anymore. It's missing all the things that I would have seen if I hadn't gotten AIDS. Things like my daughter's graduation, her wedding, my grandchildren. I'll never see those things, and that makes me sad. ↗

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

#death #dying #fear #death

That’s the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I’m in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first class. But I can’t enjoy the in-flight movie or free chocolate chip cookies because I know that before the airport is able to make room for us, the plane is going to run out of fuel, and we’re going to crash-land into a fiery, agonizing death. ↗

— Jessica Verdi

#chronic-illness #health #hiv #death