diff --git a/Source/Assembler/Assm-util.c b/Source/Assembler/Assm-util.c
index 936c7b1..457e6d7 100644
--- a/Source/Assembler/Assm-util.c
+++ b/Source/Assembler/Assm-util.c
@@ -309,6 +309,15 @@ int readToken(intermediateElement *currentElement, FILE *file, int *lineNumber)
     // Step 3: Handle string literals
     if (c == '"') {
         while ((c = fgetc(file)) != EOF && c != '"') {
+            // A STRING MAY HAVE NEWLINES IN IT, and they are as real as any others. Not
+            // counting them is why every line number after one was short: cosmos.asm has
+            // thirteen of them and its last label was reported thirteen lines early, which
+            // makes an error message point at somebody else's code. Counted here, where
+            // the character is consumed, rather than by scanning the token afterwards -
+            // the same newline must not be counted twice if this loop ever grows a way out.
+            if (c == '\n') {
+                (*lineNumber)++;
+            }
             if (i < (int)(sizeof(buffer) - 1)) {
                 buffer[i++] = c;
             } else {