Hey, this is going to sound silly, but do you think you could set off large sections of quoted text with "<blockquote> <\blockquote> instead of making them links?

A lot of people use bright colors for links that are good for drawing attention to small amounts of text, but which are painful for long amounts of text. I also find large blocks of closely-spaced underlined text (the way most Web pages display links) difficult to read. If you look at most professionally designed Web pages, links are kept to three words or fewer, five words at maximum. It's a way for designers to improve usability.