For eight years I've waited for you to realize that. I've waited for you to see yourself for who you really are. You're Lily Marks, a beautiful, extremely clever woman whose capacity for compassion sets you apart from the Nephilim. It's not your fighting skills or how good of a warrior you are. It's the fact you look at me and see a man rather than a Fallen.— -Julian

And Nephilim— we tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love— my old tutor used to say that the hearts of the Nephilim were like hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed.