The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting

by Holly Bourne

There is something about taking something ugly and making it pretty that is compelling to us.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.

we would cover ourselves with superglue and roll around until we were covered in love story after love story,