Out Of Context Quotes Thread Two!

And it’s not like history is peppered with case studies of “sad sheep that died because they ate too many lemons”

 

Isn't that the same root as the literature term "catharsis" though? I thought that was the point, that tragedy is like a laxative for the emotions.

 

The context was "she cried cathartically", which I guess here is one of those phrases which makes sense with one meaning of the word and is disturbing with the other, like this one (paragraph beginning "But this was 1680...").

 

He needed a creepy floating italian man that punches frogs with the power of the sun!

 

I like how the doctor was so traumatized by the experience that he immediately decided to have a "mustache phase"