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Reading over chapter 9 (Combat) of the PHB, I stumbled across the following text, under the Opportunity attacks entry :
The attack interrupts the provoking creature's movement, occuring right before the creature leaves your reach. (PHB, p. 195, emphasis mine)
While it seems obvious to me that the creature is allowed to resume it's movement afterwards, the text doesn't state so.
Am I assuming wrong?
You are correct; movement may be resumed after an Attack of Opportunity.
Movement is "spent" by the foot; as in, if a creature has a movement speed of "30ft", then they can spend that much speed during a move action. If they are interrupted by an opportunity attack after 10ft, then they still have 20ft left to spend.
To further support this, look at the following line from the "Sentinel" feat in the PHB:
When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature’s speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
"...speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn." is the wording which denotes that the movement is interrupted and cannot be resumed.
