A Matter of Style - End Quotes Missing

[kkersey_austin]

If y'all don't mind one more post on the subject - I just want to
point out that the rule does make some sense: it really would be
*more* confusing if each paragraph of a lengthy speech by a single
character *did* have both opening and closing quotation marks. A new
paragraph signals a new speaker, so to avoid the ambiguity an author
would have to throw in a lot of extraneous phrases like "he continued"
or such to make clear who was speaking, which could be awkward.

So as weird as leaving the quotation marks off the end of the
paragraph may be, the alternative is worse.

Elisabet