“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”

“As ill-luck would have it.”

“The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us”

“Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.”

“Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.”
Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.

“When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.”

“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”

“The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking—as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit—one might as well be dead.”

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.”

“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.”

“So does mental illness.”

“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”