I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud. Auteur: Margaret Atwood Copy Quote More from Margaret Atwood “What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grac…” “There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something wit…” “To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.” “But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”