Tag: love, mountains, risk, taking-a-chance

and I said, ‘That is why you don’t climb mountains, Gwen.’ But now I wonder. You aren’t afraid of heights.””No”, she said. “Not particularly.””Only missteps.”She paused midstroke. Did he mean to imply this had been a misstep? “I was afraid,” she said carefully. “For a very long time. But no longer.” “So was I,” he said, and lifted her chin and kissed her.