“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, amazon.comTagged: The Velveteen Rabbit, Life
“‘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, amazon.comTagged: human, hurt, Pain, real