Nash’s Reviews > Conversations on Love > Status Update

“But Stephen invited me to think about the ‘everydayness of loss’: the tender melancholy that comes with letting go of significant places – schools, universities, jobs – as we seek out new adventures. Or the loss of a youth we leave behind to build an adult future. Rather than something we experience a handful of times, I learnt that loss is part of every day, and part of love too.“

“It’s not always easy. But the best definition of happiness is the ability to approach your life as this gorgeous, unfolding work of art that’s always changing, and never quite what you expect it to be, and then seeing that it’s more beautiful than anything that’s supposedly perfect and pristine.”