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title: "5 Reality Nightmare Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/to-be-born-in-that-city-is-useful-for-only-one-thing-to-have-always/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/elena-ferrante-2338_death_to-be-born-in-that-city-is-useful-for-on_231317.png)

> [“I found him between a reality and a nightmare.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-a-thompson/i-found-him-between-a-reality-and-a-nightmare/)

[Shannon A. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-a-thompson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/shannon-a-thompson-6138_dystopian_i-found-him-between-a-reality-and-a-nigh_485898.jpg)

> [“Try your best to make my dreams become true. Because reality can be a nightmare”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashes57/try-your-best-to-make-my-dreams-become-true-because-reality-can-be-a/)

[Ashes57](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashes57/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5c/ashes57-221096_dream_try-your-best-to-make-my-dreams-become-t_2431708.jpg)

> [“This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/demitria-lunetta/this-is-how-i-think-of-time-the-past-is-before-and-the-present-is-the/)

[Demitria Lunetta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/demitria-lunetta/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3eb/demitria-lunetta-70652_past_this-is-how-i-think-of-time-the-past-is_2696002.jpg)

> [“He had nightmares like that. But then he’d wake up and realize that the dream had been a good one and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-t-scott/he-had-nightmares-like-that-but-then-he-d-wake-up-and-realize-that/)

[Jasper T. Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-t-scott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/jasper-t-scott-31336_dream_he-had-nightmares-like-that-but-then-he_2766156.jpg)

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