Wake Quotes

“Oscar's father had first put his message in a bottle into the outgoing tide at the mouth of the Motueka River seven days after Kahukura was lost to the rest of the world. He wrote to his son that local experts on the vagaries of Tasman Bay tides and currents all agreed that things drifting from the river mouth would eventually find their way with the tide to Kahukura, or Mapua, or Ruby Bay (or, in certain winds, across Tasman Bay and out to sea). "But you see," Oscar's father wrote, it was worth a try."
The first letter Oscar opened was his parents' fifth. It - and ten other copies in ten different bottles - had been dropped off the wharf at Motueka six weeks before.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Wake