The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

She was loved deeply, but not widely

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.