The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
An umbilical cord.
The best thing in the world.
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
I think that’s a thesis.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
Loved you in Dallas.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
People who think they’re always right.
Eleanor Tomlinson, Francesca Martinez, John Waters, Katherine Parkinson, Julian Lloyd Webber, Jacqueline Wilson
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