What if the person you loved never gave you a proper goodbye?
What if the friend you trusted most became a stranger overnight?
What if healing wasn’t loud, but quiet—and no one ever knew what it cost you?

“A Goodbye That Wasn’t Mine to Choose” is a hauntingly beautiful collection of fictional letters, poetic reflections, and emotionally raw storytelling that speaks to anyone who’s ever grieved something they couldn’t explain. A lost friendship. An almost-love. A dog who never came home. A version of yourself that didn’t survive the pain.

This is not a typical love story.
It’s not a self-help book wrapped in pretty promises.
It’s real. Unapologetic. Fierce.
And soft in the way only deeply wounded hearts can be.

Through five interconnected chapters, author explores the quiet heartbreaks we bury—the ones that don’t come with closure, the ones that ache in silence, the ones we never talk about but always carry.
Each chapter unravels a different kind of goodbye:
• One that was never said aloud.
• One that came after betrayal.
• One that walked away wagging its tail.
• One that was forced on you.
• And one… that still haunts your name.

Written for the girl who smiled while breaking.
For the one who never got to explain her side.
For the reader who needs a reminder: your pain is not too much to put into words.
This book is for:
• Readers who love poetic fiction with emotional weight
• Anyone navigating friendship breakups, unspoken love, or grief
• Those who loved Milk and Honey, It Ends With Us, or The Mountain Is You
• Girls who journal in the Notes app at 2 a.m. and never hit “send”

If you’ve ever whispered, “I deserved better,”
If you’ve ever cried over something no one else understood
this book is your mirror, your letter, your closure.

Not every heartbreak screams. Some just write.