diff --git a/schala-lang/src/parsing/combinator.rs b/schala-lang/src/parsing/combinator.rs
index 8fca4ce..872f9e6 100644
--- a/schala-lang/src/parsing/combinator.rs
+++ b/schala-lang/src/parsing/combinator.rs
@@ -842,7 +842,14 @@ fn bare_string_literal(input: Span) -> ParseResult<String> {
         alt((value("\\", tag("\\")), value("\"", tag("\"")), value("\n", tag("n")), value("\t", tag("t"))));
     alt((
         map(tag(r#""""#), |_| String::new()),
-        delimited(char('"'), escaped_transform(none_of(r#""\"#), '\\', string_escape_transforms), char('"')),
+        preceded(
+            peek(char('"')),
+            cut(delimited(
+                char('"'),
+                escaped_transform(none_of(r#""\"#), '\\', string_escape_transforms),
+                char('"'),
+            )),
+        ),
     ))(input)
 }