Annabeth Chase Quotes

Hephaestus: I know your mother was displeased with you recently. We both know how she gets. But this was a lot. Even for her. You walk outta here with that shield… and you’re a hero. On your way to the greatest glory. She’ll be proud and you will be forgiven, and all will go back to being as it always has been, always will be… as it should be.

Annabeth Chase: It isn’t how it should be! It isn’t! Eat or be eaten. Power and glory and nothing else matters. Ares is that way, Zeus is that way, my mother is that way. (about Percy): He isn’t that way. He’s better than that. Maybe I was that way once. But I don’t wanna be that way anymore. I won’t be like all of you. I just won’t.

Hephaestus: Some of us don’t like being that way either.

Annabeth Chase (to Percy): The Oracle didn’t say the quest would fail. “Fail to save what matters most.” That could mean a lot of things. That’s how prophecies work, that’s how fate works. It could mean a lot of things. The harder you work to understand, the harder it gets to understand. Sometimes, you’ve just gotta let it come to you when it’s ready.

Annabeth Chase (to Percy): For a while, I was treated like a gift. My father cared for me. He loved me. I knew it. Then he met a woman. They had their own kids. And to her, I–I wasn’t a gift. I was a problem. So I left. I was seven. It isn’t the gods who think that way. It’s everybody. But at least with the gods you know the rules. Show them respect and they’ll be in your corner, no matter what.

Annabeth Chase (to Percy): Do you wanna know how I ended up alone on the road in the first place? I started out as a gift to my father. That’s how it works with Athena. We’re born from a thought in her mind, and then given to a partner she feels connected to.

Annabeth Chase: My mother is just, always.

Medusa: The gods want you to believe that, that they are infallible. But they only want what all bullies want. They want us to blame ourselves for their own shortcomings.

Annabeth Chase (to Percy): You aren’t just a kid. “Just a kid” doesn’t do what you did to Clarisse back at camp. “Just a kid” doesn’t have Hades sending top lieutenants to retrieve them. You know, you are a part of something so much bigger than we can understand right now. We have to move forward, whether you like it or not, whether you want to or not.

Annabeth Chase (to Percy): We were sent on a quest by the Oracle, by the gods. What’d you think, it would be easy? It’s supposed to be hard. That’s why only certain people are chosen.