I watched a movie last night, and there was a story that was quoted in the movie. The story is The Velveteen  Rabbit by Margery Williams. Here's my favorite part of the story.


"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"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 with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"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."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. 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."
"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.

This story actually reminded me of the movie Rise of the Guardians, the part about being real. It also reminded me about the book The Little Prince. And here's my favorite part of The Little Prince...well, I would post a segment of the book, but as I was looking through it, I think I love it too much to take it apart, and have others judge on it based on one part, so if you have time, I recommend reading this book. It is very short, and more like a children's book, but when I read it, I felt that I learned more about human nature in this book than I did reading other books.

ps. my favorite part is the story of the rose. ^_^