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1->'''The Doctor:''' Don't run. Don't shout. Keep your voice down. Draw attention to yourself and the spell is broken. Just keep to the shadows.\
2'''Jack:''' Like ghosts.\
3'''The Doctor:''' Yeah. That's what we are — ghosts.
4-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]
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6->'''River Song:''' How did we miss that?\
7'''The Doctor:''' Low-level perception filter... Or maybe we're ''thick.''
8-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]]
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10->''Forget the way you usually look at the world. This street's going to be hiding in plain sight. If you see something unusual or notable, dismiss it. Just keep walking. But if there's a bit of London [[BeneathNotice so unremarkable that you don't even think about it]]... stop. You could very well be standing right outside a trap street.''
11-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]]
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13->''Keep this up, and I could leave you bleeding to death in this lobby. A sprinkle of sand, and your body will sit here and rot. Your friends will hold their noses and step over your corpse, but you’ll remain here until the animals take you to pieces.''
14-->-- '''[[MasterOfIllusion Fell]]''', ''Literature/{{Pact}}''
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16->Women of a certain age [[BeneathNotice tend to be overlooked]], unless they go out of their way to make themselves look younger or kick up a stink. Normally it's a nuisance, but when you have [[FunctionalMagic the ability]] to amplify it to the level of a preternatural power, it's even better than a cloak of invisibility. True invisibility would be a [[BlessedWithSuck disastrous nuisance]], but Mo's self-effacing superpower renders her anonymous and uninteresting. Onlookers simply dismiss her and walk on by. Burglars would view her with envious regard - if their eyeballs didn't slide past her without stopping.
17-->--''[[Literature/TheLaundryFiles The Delirium Brief]]''
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19->''"You are a sore thumb of a man. Tall as a signpost, thin, and conspicuously unnatural. And yet you are practically translucent. Eyes slide over you... until you put your knife to their jugular."''
20-->-- '''Florian''' on [[HumanoidAbomination Johann]], ''Literature/TheMonsterOfElendhaven''
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22->''"There are [=SCPs=] with antimemetic properties," Marion goes on. "There are ideas which cannot be spread. There are entities and phenomena which harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves. You take a Polaroid photo of one, it'll never develop. You write a description down with a pen on paper and hand it to someone— but what you've written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you. You can look directly at one and it won't even be invisible, but you'll still perceive nothing there. Dreams you can't hold onto and secrets you can never share, and lies, and living conspiracies. It's a conceptual subculture, of ideas consuming other ideas and… sometimes… segments of reality. Sometimes, people."''
23-->-- ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/we-need-to-talk-about-fifty-five "We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five"]]
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