Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of the sun."
Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt.
It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.