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Margery Williams

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Margery Williams Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Margery Williams

Birthname

AKA: Margery Williams

Birthplace: United Kingdom

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Translator, Children's Writer, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“Real isn’t how you are made. It’s a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become real.”

— Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

Tagged: real, Love, Reality

“‘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, The Velveteen Rabbit

Tagged: human, hurt, Pain, real

“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, The Velveteen Rabbit

Tagged: The Velveteen Rabbit, Life

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