He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise

“In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly …”

“Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; sudde…”

“Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this …”

“The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, ince…”