The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
The Inheritance of LossYou’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.
ShiverHis departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
Northanger AbbeyA woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,