I have no past life memories, so I'd be interested in talking more how you found those, maybe on another thread. I have had dreams of being other people who lived in the past, but I don't think these are past lives, I think they're other people and alternative projections of parts of myself, not past lives in the 'that was me' sense.
To quote, I usually click on the 'reply with quote' button, which quotes the whole text. Then I copy and paste and selectively remove what I don't want. Possibly there's a better way, but that's what I do, when I bother.
It looks like you're missing the '[/' from the '[\QUOTE]' that marks the quote end. Maybe you deleted it by accident when editing. No shame in that.