When John Ryder, for instance, writes "I utter valediction to the author of my being," he means simply that he said goodbye to his mother. Robertson Davies
This Jerónimo, my grandfather, swineherd and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. José Saramago
It was easy when you were younger, you can put it back together, it was there if you ever wanted it but you closed the door and said goodbye for good. ~ "EZ" Pete Yorn
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. Anders Zorn
we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye. Melissa de la Cruz
Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them along the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing. A. A. Milne