The Long Goodbye

4. To find one's way through a complex system or a difficult situation.
7. Evoking a keen sense of sadness, regret, or nostalgia that is often deeply moving.
8. Intricate, convoluted, and confusing, like a maze.
9. Relating to the mental processes of thinking, knowing, remembering, and understanding.
13. The ability to make your own decisions and have control over your own life.
16. A short and welcome period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant.
18. A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
19. Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
20. More important than anything else; supreme.

1. A place of refuge, safety, or serenity, offering protection and peace.
2. The state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
3. Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
5. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness or the ability to bounce back.
6. In a way that is impossible to stop or prevent; relentlessly.
10. The small, precise, or trivial details of something.
11. A heavy load or a source of great worry and responsibility.
12. Steady and resolute; showing no fear or hesitation in the face of something difficult.
14. Serving as a crude, temporary, or improvised substitute for something.
15. Used metaphorically to describe something complex and interwoven, made up of many different parts.
17. To recognize or affirm that a person's feelings or opinions are worthwhile or legitimate.