but do use opening quotation marks at the start the second paragraph. Continue this pattern, using closing quotation marks only at the very end of the quoted material. Placement with other punctuation ...

What shocked me was the punctuation ... quotation marks and singles: Tracy recalled, “I was shocked when Rick said, ‘I call spinach “bitter leaves.”’” Theoretically, you could go ...

Do, however, begin the next paragraph with a quotation ... punctuation. Use a comma, period, question mark, etc., but don't use two of those in a row. Commas at the end of quoted phrases go inside ...

if you put a period or comma inside quotation marks, you are wrongly suggesting that the period or comma is part of the quoted material, and thus you have “changed” it. Logical punctuation is ...