# Quote — Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

> “I am not my childhood," Snowman says out loud.

- Author: [Margaret Atwood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood.md)
- Book: [Oryx and Crake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#Oryx_and_Crake_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake/i-am-not

## More from this book

> “There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake/theres-something-to-be-said.md)

> “He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake/he-has-to-find.md)

> “All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/oryx-and-crake/all-it-takes.md)