Yup, both French and German novelists use guillemets sometimes, but they are not precise analogies for quotation marks. They're sort of in between quotation marks and block quotes. You usually see them for quotations that are set off from other paragraphs, but without a length requirement like with block quotes.

For quotations within narrative sentences, you don't usually see any punctuation at all to indicate the quote. You just get it from context.

That seemed odd to me for a minute, until I realized I wasn't having any difficulty understanding, then I just accepted it. Lol