If there's anything I struggle with in English, it's deciding whether to place a period before or after closing quotation marks. For example:
1. He wrote to me in his email, "I am well."
2. He wrote to me in his email, "I am well".
The challenge here is that I don't want to put the period inside the quotation marks if that's *not* how it looked in the guy's email because I want to have respect for him. What if his full message to me was "I am well and so is my family"?
On the other, placing the period after the quotation marks looks awful to me, and I say that after years of typing it that way and trying to get used to it.
Does anyone have any answer to this perceived dilemma of mine? Thanks to anyone who read this far.