Margery Williams Quotes

#1. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

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

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#3. 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 real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.

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

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#5. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. But the thing that ... that I touched ... " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.

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