"You can't make them--whoever your particular them is--do anything, really," said Ekaterin slowly. "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard."

— A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga (13)) (49%)