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

- Margery Williams

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

- Margery Williams

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…

- Margery Williams

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 …

- Margery Williams

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

- Margery Williams

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

- Margery Williams

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…

- Margery Williams

When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter.

- Margery Williams