diff --git a/rc/filetype/haskell.kak b/rc/filetype/haskell.kak
index 4315d37e..7d15014a 100644
--- a/rc/filetype/haskell.kak
+++ b/rc/filetype/haskell.kak
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ add-highlighter shared/haskell/macro        region ^\h*?\K#
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/pragma       region -recurse \{- \{-#               '#-\}'           fill meta
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/comment      region -recurse \{- \{-                  -\}            fill comment
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/line_comment region --(?:[^!#$%&*+./<>?@\\\^|~=]|$) $                fill comment
-add-highlighter shared/haskell/quasiquote   region \[\b[_a-z]['\w]*#?\| \|\]                        fill string
+add-highlighter shared/haskell/quasiquote   region \[\b[_a-z]['\w]*#?\| \|\]                        regex \[\b[_a-z]['\w]*#?\|(.*?)\|\] 1:string
 
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/code/ regex (?<!')\b0x+[A-Fa-f0-9]+ 0:value
 add-highlighter shared/haskell/code/ regex (?<!')\b\d+([.]\d+)? 0:value