I've noticed a lot of folks are confused about quotation marks when it comes to a new paragraph spoken by the same person. Here's an easy way to remember the rule. If one person is talking, stops, and then starts talking on a different subject, you have a quotation mark at both starts, but not at the stop in between. Example:
His words caught her off guard. She was stunned, flattered, confused, and lusting simultaneously. She whispered, "Thank you.
"Um, don't you need to get to a phone?"
"Yes, I do," he replied.
The paragraph separates the two ideas, but the lack of the closed quotation shows that the same person is still speaking.
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