Ann Pearlman > Quotes

“I am the head cookie bitch and this is my party.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“Every day we walk a razor thin line between the ordinary and the tragic."...First line of Gift For My Sister.”
― Ann Pearlman

“And some man can't be the door to what you want. All a man can do is love you, be family with you, help you fulfill your dreams.”
― Ann Pearlman, A Gift for My Sister

“Time doesn’t make a full life. Living your life to the fullest makes it full.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“Being alone in a marriage is worse than being alone.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“I consider the luck of simply being born, of being plucked out of the cosmos and bestowed with eyes to see, and nerves to feel, and ears to hear. Our senses. Our speech. Our breath. How crucial and insistent our ceaseless moving lungs from our first cry to our last.”
― Ann Pearlman, A Gift for My Sister

“You need to add light and joy. After all, isn’t Christmas with its lights, and Hanukkah with its candle flames, about adding illumination to this dark time of year? We need to remind ourselves that the sun will eventually push the night to more reasonable margins. The Christmas cookie club, if it’s anything, is a reminder of delight. And, of course, a reminder that girlfriends help one another to endure the grind and to celebrate the joy.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“Maybe Luke is right and love is immortal. Maybe it's the ultimate ripple effect. The ultimate butterfly's wing.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“The past gets carried with us. It's always there.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“The life of sensation is the life of greed, it requires more and more. The life of spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.”
― Ann Pearlman

“Pero ahora me pregunto por qué nos empeñamos en creer que una vida completa debe durar por lo menos ochenta años y que cualquier cosa por debajo de eso es un timo”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club