Velveteen Rabbit: "What is REAL?"
Skin Horse: "When a child loves you...REALLY loves you...then you become Real."
Velveteen Rabbit: "Does it hurt?"
Skin Horse: "Sometimes." (For he was always truthful.)
Velveteen Rabbit: "Does it happen all at once...or bit by bit?"
Skin Horse: "It takes a long time. You become. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or who have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept."
