Echo

"I would give my entire output of words, past, present and to come, in exchange for easier access to the world, for permission to state, 'I hurt' or, 'I hate' or, 'I want'. Or, indeed, 'Look at me'. And I do not go back on this. For once a thing is known it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten" 

- from Anita Brookner's, Look At Me (1980).