Very often, when writing, you'll need to indicate that the words have been spoken or written by another person, and the way we do this, is to use quotation marks. It sounds straightforward enough, but you'd be surprised at the mess some people can find themselves in when trying to use quotation marks in the middle of a sentence. One small point - quotation marks indicate that something is being quoted. Quote is a verb e.g. I will quote a passage from the play.
Quotation is the noun e.g.
The quotation she used in her audition was too long. This is because it is the beginning of the quoted sentence. Its stopped raining. This is because Dad has spoken TWO separate sentences, each one dealing with a separate, completed thought. Note also the use of capital letters for Mum and Dad - when these words are used as a person's name , you use a capital letter.