Ursula Monkton Quotes & Sayings

I did not want to die. More than that, I did not want to die as Ursula Monkton had died, beneath the rending talons and beaks of things that may not even have had legs or faces. — Neil Gaiman

Darling? This is Ursula Monkton, — Neil Gaiman

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. — Neil Gaiman

There was still a monster in my house, and, in a fragment of time that had, perhaps, been snipped out of reality, my father had pushed me down into the water of the bath and tried, perhaps, to drown me. I had run for miles through the dark. I had seen my father kissing and touching the thing that called itself Ursula Monkton. The dread had not left my soul. But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept. X. — Neil Gaiman