Crocodile's Journal (Revised Edition)

The most passionate novel in Qiu Miaojin's life
A classic of Taiwanese queer literature from the late 20th century that should not be overlooked - Revised Edition

Stop coming closer to each other, the destruction will not cease.

In your future, I want to tell you:
Break any imaginings I made you have, strive to love someone,
but do not love someone excessively, love moderately, nor can you not love at all,
a love that is enough for you to know how to be good to them in reality,
a love that is enough to motivate you to do your best to treat the other person well.
Even if you stop loving me because of it,
it doesn't matter, I hope you live well now and in the future,
which means striving to love others,
even though I may not be entirely free from sorrow.

The attitude towards love in life is not so much about fulfilling an idealized, eternal image of love, but rather about facing the responsibility of one absurd and incomplete meaning of love after another.

There are many important images in my life, all condensed with an unexpected weight at a particular turn in the corridors of my life. But I have never said goodbye or thanked the important people within these images; I simply held my breath in a huff and let them slip out of my corridors.

With these, I gently turned the doorknob, closed the door. Stepping into the twilight of dawn, I departed forever and ever.