What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows-she sees-how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency. (Neal Shusterman)

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows-she sees-how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Neal Shusterman

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