„As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.“

— Lewis Carroll
„Come with me.""Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me," and I always reply in some such words as these: "Dear madam, I decline."“
— J. M. Barrie
„Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?“
— Rick Riordan
„I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I loafe and invite my soul.“
— Walt Whitman