Chosen Ones (The Chosen Ones, #1)

by Veronica Roth

In other words, for something to be magic, it must be an impossible want.

For a brief period, my editor and I wanted to title this book "The Manifestation of Impossible Wants," because we both liked the phrase so much. It's not a great title for this book, though, so ultimately we went back to the much simpler and more memorable "Chosen Ones."