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The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) Edgar Allan Poe

"Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant. A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention; and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them."

The Bet (1889) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" 'I'll bet you two millions you wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for five years.'   

'If you mean that in earnest,' said the young man, 'I'll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years.'  

'Fifteen? Done!' "

With Morning Comes Mistfall (1973) George R. R. Martin

" 'The sun,' he said. 'As it rises, the heat drives the mists back into the valleys, forces them to surrender the mountains they've conquered during the night. The mists sink, and one by one the peaks come into view. By noon the whole range is visible for miles and miles. There's nothing like it on Earth, or anywhere else.' "

The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God (2001) Etgar Keret

"This is the story about a bus driver who would never open the door of the bus for people who were late. Not for anyone."