"It was good to chat, as people had done before the world grew so dire, and all contact had the quality of risk, and all the concatenated sorrows of the world seemed to drain away the pleasure of conversation from young people."
#SundaySentence is again from Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
"... an image formed in Kit's mind of this huge smiling crowd that occupied all of Ontario, millions moving in unison, their eyes fixed on a brilliant future, children raised in those efficient government-built habitats ..."