A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)

by John Grisham

“You shouldn’t criticize, Stan. It’s an easy habit to acquire and an impossible one to break. It robs your soul of character.”

I’m not even sure who said this but it sounds like Jake on his soap box. (I don’t know who because I have never read the book. Once I’m finished I move on to the next and have never gone back.) My mother despised criticizing and this is something I heard her say many times.