Using Quotation Marks and Colons/Semicolons Together

[chomiji]

The Grammarians have been asked "How do you use quotation marks and colons/semicolons together?"

This combination really does conjure up visions of a punctuation traffic jam. Let's take a closer look, and we'll work it out -- one way or another.

( With examples from a pair of fantastic journeys: Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollboth and C.S. Lewis' Voyage of the Dawn Treader...  )