The question
What does love feel like?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My marriage has not been a drudge. But in 29 years there are times where it's not all excitement, thunderbolts and shooting stars. You have to think, 'I like you and I rate you,' and you'll ride it out.
Michael Odell, This much I know, The Observer, 14 August 2004 source ↗
A blurred, warm state of total acceptance and joy.
Love is understanding, authenticity and being able to be exactly who you are with no editing – and it’s a gift.
Like it’s worth being alive.
When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
I try to be a Sherlock Holmes of botany. It's not enough to enjoy plants – I want to know why they are wilting, to work things out.
Specialisation leads to extinction. We are learning more and more but about less and less, and one day we will know everything about nothing. There is nothing wrong with being a populist. It does not have to mean dumbing down, as people think.
I aspire to Jane Austen's precision and observation, but I'm nowhere near.
I like moronic jobs like mowing. I like looking back and admiring the stripes I've created on the lawn.
My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
Rudeness, arrogance and inability to compromise.
Jacqueline Novogratz, Andrea Riseborough, Olly Alexander, Richard Ford, Jack Davenport, Cressida Cowell
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