Margery Williams Quotes

• 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 the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Eye, Hair

  Margery Williams Bianco (2016). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• 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 hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Real, People

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

  Margery Williams

  Life, Time, Educational

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish

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

  Margery Williams

  Children, Real, Love You

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• 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, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Horse, Children

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• 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 he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. 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.

  Margery Williams

  Beautiful, Real, Boys

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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

  Margery Williams

  Real, Self Esteem, Lasts

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.14, Marshall Cavendish

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

  Margery Williams

  Real, Rabbits, Made

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• 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.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Humility, Nurse

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• [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

  Horse, Real, People

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• When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Real, Mind

  Margery Williams Bianco (2016). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real”, p.4, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Tears, Velvet

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish

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• When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Matter

  Margery Williams Bianco, Margery Williams, Thea Kliros (1989). “The Velveteen Rabbit Coloring Book”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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