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There is evil in this world, and it causes the suffering of innocent people. If God is good but unable to redress this, he is impotent. If God is not good and merely omnipotent, and does not redress these things, he is evil. If God is neither good nor omnipotent, he cannot be called God. Therefore the real existence of a good and omnipotent God is an impossible fallacy.
Your eyes widen when you are genuinely angry. Your thick brows rise, your lashes and lips quiver, and your chest heaves with every breath you gasp. As soon as I returned the pen, you hastily scrawled in the notebook: In that case my God is both good and full of sorrow. If you are attracted to such nonsensical arguments, one day your own real existence will become an impossible fallacy.
It was around then that I realized for the first time that falling in love is like being haunted. Even before I opened my eyes in the morning, you would slip in under my eyelids. When I opened them, you instantly transferred to the ceiling, the wardrobe, the windowpane, the street, the far-off sky, and glimmered there like dappled light. You haunted me more persistently than I imagine any ghost ever could.
If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence.
