Weird Missing quotes issue with the_excerpt()

<div class="excerptentry"><?php the_excerpt(); ?><div class="excerptlink"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"> Click for more information...</a></div></div>

Why would this code cause

<div class="excerptentry"><a href=https://www.bloodylexicon.com/monsters/al

(it has closing tags, copy and pasted from w3c.org from validator)

Basically, the quotes are missing from the a href=

for example at https://www.bloodylexicon.com/category/monsters/aliens/