How to deal with a long quote in a story?

I was starting to write a draft when I came to a portion of the story that I intended to use to quote a journal entry a character was writing. However, before getting too far (in my outside word processer), I checked to see what options the Lush editor had and I was kind of disappointed to see there was no option to do a quoteblock or indent text as far as I could tell, as either of those would be the most ideal way to format that part of the story.

Which brings me to my question: if I did want to do that, exactly how should I format it? Is there some hidden trick one can do to format it in that way, or what? Should I just italicize it all? I feel like trying to have it all in quotes would look kind of ugly.

Any advice would be welcome. Thanks!

I think italics might work best for that sort of thing. I've seen stories before with journal entries or letters, and italics works well for it. Visually, I definitely prefer it to quotes for a longer piece.

yeah, the Lush editor is pretty limited. most folks just use italics for journal entries or inner thoughts. you can also start with something like “From her journal:” on a new line, then italicize the entry. breaks it up cleanly without needing fancy formatting. Just my take

Standard practice for a long quote that spans multiple paragraphs, when special formatting is unavailable, has been to begin each paragraph with double quotation marks, but not to end a paragraph with quote marks if it’s a quotation that continues on in the new paragraph.

“This is the first paragraph of the quote.

“This is the second paragraph of the quote.

“This is the last paragraph of the quote.”