Pineapple Street Quotes

“There were things you could do with family that you just couldn’t do with friends: You could let them see you wearing the same outfit three days in a row. You could invite them over for lunch and then mostly ignore them as you finally got off hold with the internet provider. You could have an entire conversation while wearing Crest Whitestrips.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Her own family was a restaurant booth—you could always scoot in and make space for one more. Cord’s family was a table with chairs, and those chairs were bolted to the floor.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“She was a receptacle for an emotional outburst, the human equivalent of screaming into a pillow.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“People could change. People could evolve. Who was she to hold him to some strict moral standard? Everything she had believed about herself had gone out the window when she fell in love with Brady. Good people did fucked-up things.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Tilda was hard for her to talk to; she was of a generation that despised difficult conversations, and shut down at the slightest hint of conflict or unpleasantness. When Georgiana was a teenager, she found this infuriating, every venture at true closeness put on ice.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“the wrong guests could ruin even the best parties.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“she belonged entirely to that moment.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Competition was their family love language.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“But I can’t control that right now. I can only control what I do with my life.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“She felt lonely and pathetic, but she knew that all across the city there were girls just like her who had spent their Saturday nights waiting for something to happen, nursing a drink or reading a paperback in a coffee shop or scrolling endlessly on their phones, alone and biding their time until their real life would begin.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“I’m worried that my kids will look back and see a country that completely abandoned morality, that let people die of hunger while the wealthy took tax breaks.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Without tennis they were like two strangers who both happened to have the exact same ears.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at him as though the dog had begun speaking Dutch.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“The other thing, the thing that sucked to talk about, was the secret lurking worry that other people were using them. Using them for their weekend homes, their good alcohol, their big apartments, their parties, their internships, their closets, their, well, their money. Darley saw it all the time to varying degrees—guys who bought their girlfriends jewelry and laptops and paid for expensive vacations, only for them to realize the guys were essentially bribing their way into a relationship; guys who amassed crowds of hangers-on when they paid for bottle service or houses in the Hamptons. There was a difference between sharing your good fortune and being taken advantage of, and sometimes discerning the difference could break your heart.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“It was the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, whereby once you noticed something new you saw it all over the place. Had Curtis McCoy always been bumping around the periphery of her life and she’d just never noticed? Because he was suddenly impossible to avoid.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Darley’s children were obsessed with death. They were five and six, and everyone said this was developmentally normal, but Darley secretly worried it meant they were tortured souls who would get face tattoos”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“the city, at his desk on Wall Street by eight forty-five.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Keener, then everything directed by Nancy Meyers, and they both cried during Father of the Bride and had to rewind and watch the part again where Steve Martin plays basketball with his daughter.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“She felt lonely and pathetic, but she knew that all across the city there were girls just like her who had spent their Saturday nights waiting for something to happen, nursing a drink or reading a paperback in a coffee shop or scrolling endlessly on their phones, alone and biding their time until their real life would begin.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“She felt lonely and pathetic, but she knew that all across the city there were girls just like her who had spent their saturday nights waiting for something to happen, nursing a drink or reading a paperback in a coffee shop or scrolling endlessly on their phones, alone and biding their time until their real l ife would begin.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“I live in Brooklyn.
By choice. —Truman Capote”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“But being with you and being with your family saved me.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Early on she had identified Malcolm as an ally in the strange world that was siblings by marriage, and they even had a code they muttered when things got really weird: NMF. It stood for “not my family,” and it exonerated them from any situation where they felt like outside witnesses to bizarre WASP rituals, like the time in July when the Stocktons had insisted on taking a professional family photo for their Christmas card and made them all wear shades of blue and white and stand in a semicircle around Chip and Tilda, who were seated in two chairs.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Georgiana didn’t need to be his girlfriend; she didn’t need to stake that claim, because she knew, completely and positively, that everything she felt for Brady was reciprocated, that they could call it friendship and he would still look at her in a way that made her insides go hot and electric. They were friends with benefits, and for Georgiana that benefit was that she was sleeping with someone she loved completely.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Little Debbie is all kindness and cream-filled cakes. Wendy looks like Conan O’Brien with braids and smells like hamburger grease.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“she looked calm and emanated a force Sasha usually associated with people who did lots of yoga or rubbed CBD lotion on their bodies.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Chip and Tilda had never seen her childhood home, had barely spent time with her parents, but as Sasha spoke, she was surprised by the ease with which she told her story.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“You cleaned the lines on the clay tennis court after a match; you never wore denim to the club; you didn’t show up with wet hair; you said “Nice to see you,” never “Nice to meet you,” even if there was no conceivable way you’d ever crossed paths before in your life.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street