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….

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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 sha….

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. Bu….

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 ….

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

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