L'appartement

"For me love is like this: you're in one apartment which you think is fine...You're happy there and then you go into the next apartment and close the door and this one is even better. And the sequence continues, but with the odd feature that although this has happened to you a number of times, you forget: each time your new quarters are manifestly better and each time it's breathtaking, a surprise, something you've done nothing to deserve or make happen."

Norman Rush Mating
(c) Norman Rush 1991