Chosen Ones (The Chosen Ones, #1)

by Veronica Roth

In other words, magic is a mirror. It reflects us back to ourselves, and we may not always like what we see.

It was as if Sibyl had seen an encyclopedia entry about what belonged in a grandmother’s house and had replicated it exactly, down to the doilies on the mahogany coffee table.

You don’t pick the act and then force the desire. You know the desire—the exact shade of it—and then choose the act accordingly.”

We thought he caused them because he was there whenever they happened. But maybe they just happened whenever he was there—he was the wrongness in that universe, and the Drains were a way of Earth trying to right itself.”