I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud. Author: Margaret Atwood Copy Quote More from Margaret Atwood “Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow …” “...the hearts gone bubonic with jealousy and greed, glinting through the vests …” “Now that I am dead, I know everything.” “In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice…”