# Quote — Ursula K. Le Guin, Orsinian Tales

> I was afraid I’d fail. So I didn’t work.

- Author: [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md)
- Book: [Orsinian Tales](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/orsinian-tales.md)
- Page: 93
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Orsinian_Tales_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/orsinian-tales/i-was-afraid

## More from this book

> And fourteen—fourteen is such a fearful age, when you find out so fast what you’re capable of being, but also what a toll the world expects.

p. 204 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/orsinian-tales/and-fourteen-fourteen-is-such.md)

> Josef liked to read books, not pack them.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/orsinian-tales/josef-liked-to-read.md)

> He had waked her; he had given her what she lacked, and what few men could have given her: the sense of peril, which is the root of love.

p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/orsinian-tales/he-had-waked.md)