Sandi Toksvig: 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.

Recorded Sandi Toksvig said elsewhere, not written here

Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

Comforting, solid, unconditional, a drug.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

Hamza Yassin

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.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗

David Ajala

Finding a tenner in your jeans pocket. It has always been there but you find it at the moment you really need it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2025 source ↗

Nicola Walker British actress

Like you are standing with an army.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2017 source ↗

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My five-litre Ford Mustang.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains

I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗