6 Quotes & Sayings By Astrid Lee Miles

Astrid was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended the International School of Art & Design in Kansas City before moving to Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating cum laude. Astrid had her first short stories published at the age of 14. "A Girl's Gotta Be Bad, or What's Wrong With Me", won the 1994 American Library Association's Alex Award for Best Young Adult Book Read more

Astrid is a creator of action comics and graphic novels, including "Dead Girl", "Tango", "The Girl with the Demon Wings" series, co-created with artist Jodi Wynne, and "Gingerbread Girl". Astrid also penned "The Pretty Little Devils" for DC Comics, which she collaborated on with writer J. Torres.

Her work has appeared in "Buzzy Magazines" and "Alternative Press". At age 15 she won an award for her story "Why?"

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No. Depression is the unseen, unheard, silent killer. It is the pain that is too much to cope with, too hard to deal with and never understood. It is something that you can’t escape, no matter how hard you try it ALWAYS swallows you again. It constantly follows you around, like black smoke choking you from the inside out. Like a lion clawing at your heart and mind, eating pieces of you until there is nothing left. Astrid Lee Miles
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How about we never talk about what happened and why I feel the way I feel. We just pretend that everything is fine and I just scrub myself red every night, allowing my mind and body to retreat into oblivion. Yup sounds like the perfect plan. Astrid Lee Miles
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I feel lost and confused, but happy and certain. I am like a ball of tangled yarn. The parts that are untangled are available, useable; the rest is a mess, useless until it is untied. That mess feels endless and at most times unyielding. Astrid Lee Miles
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Love is when your heart melts like butter on toast; when you feel lightheaded and free. Most of all, you feel an ache to be with them, to look at them and to touch them. Astrid Lee Miles
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Is it possible that “love hurts” is the biggest lie out there. Perhaps love heals, it makes people whole again. Astrid Lee Miles