Its very important to everyone who wants to create a text based game know how to talk to people "question -> answer" or "comment (we type something) -> casual answers. Maybe you alredy answered to someone like me that is new to the program but i'm Italian so is harder to understand :)

-ITSLEO (working on a text adventure game using QUEST)

There are various ways to do dialogues in a text adventure, and there is an introduction to the topic is here:
http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/conversations.html

The ASK/TELL system is described here:
http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/ask_about.html

If you are using the desktop version, there is also my library for a dynamic menu-based system:
https://github.com/ThePix/quest/wiki/Conversations:-Library

(Sorry, all in English!)

Thank you SOO much :)