What most people do is copy by starting at the person's name right above the message and drag down into the message box.  Then go down to the message you doing, hit the quote button and paste it in.  Hit enter key twice the end quote.  

Like this :
 

 Ganchik
 replied about 5 hours ago
Yep..this site does not use the same forum software 
????

I think that there are plans to add a better quote function at some point.  

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