All I could think was that grandfathers were supposed to die in beds, in hushed places humming with machines, not in heaps on the sodden reeking ground with ants marching over them, a brass letter opener clutched in one trembling hand.

— Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

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