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Quote #4
"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." (10)
So in order to become Real, you've got to become ugly. Except you won't really be ugly according to the Skin Horse. Whoever makes you Real will see the beauty on the inside. Aww.
Quote #5
[The Rabbit] longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these uncomfortable things happening to him. (13)
So the Rabbit is a little skeptical of all this Real business. Sure, he'd like to become Real, but he's not too thrilled about the fact that he's got to lose his looks to do it. Hey, some toys are vain.
Quote #6
And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy—so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him. (18)
Ah, but once the Rabbit gets to know the Boy and starts to love him, he doesn't mind that he's getting all shabby and beat-up. The Rabbit loves the Boy and the Boy loves him back and appearances don't matter anymore. That's real love.