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Victory is Joe’s best friend from childhood. After Victory’s parents took the abandoned baby Joe in, Victory—also an infant—becomes almost a surrogate brother to Joe. Joe reflects that Victory is the first (and for a long time, the only) person in the world that he can confide in entirely. The two boys do almost everything together: Victory hunts alongside Henry Lestory, just like Joe, and both boys move to the neighboring town of Palestine when Vienna is burned down.
Victory Williams Quotes in Jazz
The Jazz quotes below are all either spoken by Victory Williams or refer to Victory Williams. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
Quotes
I tracked my mother in Virginia and it led me right to her, and I tracked Dorcas from borough to borough. I didn't even have to work at it. Didn't even have to think. Something else takes over when the track begins to talk to you, give out its signs so strong you hardly have to look […] If the trail speaks, no matter what’s in the way, you can find yourself in a crowded room aiming a bullet at her heart, never mind it’s the heart you can't live without […]
I wasn't looking for the trail. It was looking for me and when it started talking at first I couldn’t hear it. I was rambling, just rambling all through the city. I had the gun but it was not the gun—it was my hand I wanted to touch you with.
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Victory Williams Quotes in Jazz
The Jazz quotes below are all either spoken by Victory Williams or refer to Victory Williams. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
Quotes
I tracked my mother in Virginia and it led me right to her, and I tracked Dorcas from borough to borough. I didn't even have to work at it. Didn't even have to think. Something else takes over when the track begins to talk to you, give out its signs so strong you hardly have to look […] If the trail speaks, no matter what’s in the way, you can find yourself in a crowded room aiming a bullet at her heart, never mind it’s the heart you can't live without […]
I wasn't looking for the trail. It was looking for me and when it started talking at first I couldn’t hear it. I was rambling, just rambling all through the city. I had the gun but it was not the gun—it was my hand I wanted to touch you with.
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