Margery Williams Quotes

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• It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.
• When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.
• Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you.
• Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in…
• He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
• Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being…
• Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that…
• [O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit
• When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
• Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
• When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
• Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long,…
• Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a…
• '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 often to people…
• '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 how you are…

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