“Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.”
“Facing him as I lower the glass from my lips, he's giving me one of those intense moonlit stares.”
“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
“..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.”
“Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.”
“So I stared out at that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”