Margery Williams

'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?''Real isn't…

— Margery Williams

Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And…

— Margery Williams

Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you.

— Margery Williams

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen…

— Margery Williams

“Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was…

— Margery Williams

Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him…

— Margery Williams

[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

— Margery Williams

“He said, " You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or…

— Margery Williams

“He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes…

— Margery Williams

Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

— Margery Williams

“Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't…

— Margery Williams

When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.

— Margery Williams

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

— Margery Williams

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you…

— Margery Williams