电影里的叙述:那只毛绒兔子问:“什么是真实?”然后这只兔子又问:“会痛吗?”马儿回答道:“有时会痛。”“疼痛是瞬间的吗?”“会疼很长时间的。总之,当你变成真的,你的毛发会被撕扯,你将失去眼睛,变得残缺。但是没有关系,因为你变得真实起来,那些不理解的人才觉得你是丑陋的。”书中原文:"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." ——《The Velveteen Rabbit》