BG – you entirely ignored my point, and my point was that when you use quotation marks (and you use more than anyone I have ever encountered) you should actually be quoting someone.

I now have a second point – when you purport to quote ME never, EVER, change what I have written. You added italics where there were none. The italics don’t change the meaning on the quote, but they make me look stupid, as the italics have no use where you have put them. If you wish to appear melodramatic in your own writing, that’s up to you. But if you quote me, use my words as I have written them.