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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That example may not be "missing" anything. That's typographically correct for quoted text that spans multiple paragraphs.
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That's probably true, I think I've had someone explain that to me ages ago.
But even if correct, I find it jarring. When I get to the end with no matching quotation mark I find myself compelled to go back to see if I missed it somewhere, not wanting to assume something thought is actually dialog.
My brain doesn't like it when half of a pair is missing. I don't care for it at the start of paragraphs in a new chapter, either. I have, on occation had to go back and re-read the first paragraph because I didn't realize it was dialog, but mental description of the scene.
I'm a 'visual' reader, and don't usually see the words when I read, but the video in my head. Anything that pops me out of the moving video and re-read isn't very enjoyable.