Here's another approach. Note from the last two lines of the  __DATA__ section that it's easy to put together an example that confuses these regexes: natural language parsing is hard! 
use warnings;
use strict;


MAIN: {

my $sq = q{'};
my $dq = q{"};

my $sq_body = qr{ [^\\$sq]* (?: \\. [^\\$sq]* )* }xms;
my $dq_body = qr{ [^\\$dq]* (?: \\. [^\\$dq]* )* }xms;

my $text = do { local $/;  <DATA> };  # slurp all text

my @quotes =
   grep defined && length,  # ignore empty captures, null strings
   $text =~ m{ $dq ($dq_body) $dq | $sq ($sq_body) $sq }xmsg;

s{ \n }{ }xmsg for @quotes;  # make multi-line quotes into one line

print "<$_> \n" for @quotes;

}


__DATA__
"Mary had a little lamb", she said.
She thought, "I'm sure he said 'Wait
a tick' before".
She wondered, "What happens to an escaped \"?"
Also, what happens to a "" or '' null quote?
Nobody loves me
'Mary had a large
and "wooly" lamb'
Do not divide by '0'.
Don't divide by '0'.
She said, 'I'm sure it'll be ok.'

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Output: 
<Mary had a little lamb>
<I'm sure he said 'Wait a tick' before>
<What happens to an escaped \"?>
<Mary had a large and "wooly" lamb>
<0>
<t divide by >
<. She said, >
<m sure it>

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In reply to Re: Trying to find all items in between quotation and speech marks by AnomalousMonk
in thread Trying to find all items in between quotation and speech marks by Anonymous Monk

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